Leading Palestinian prisoners start hunger strike: Hamas
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The Hamas Prisoners Authority says it is going head-to-head against the Israeli occupation's prisons administration, marking a new chapter in their battle for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners.
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A Palestinian protestor waves the national flag in front of Israeli occupation forces outside the Ofer prison in the West Bank, Palestine March 30, 2016 (AFP)
Hamas Prisoners Authority announced Sunday the start of a new chapter in the open battle with the Israeli occupation's prison administration.
In the coming hours, the Hamas body said that the leading Palestinian prisoners will enter an open hunger strike battle, which will be followed by similar, successive steps.
The authority had vowed a "long, open-ended battle" against the Israeli occupation, in retaliation against the latter's suppressive measures against male and female Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas also held the Israeli occupation accountable for the deterioration of the situation and the course of events in occupied Palestine.
The authority has previously announced that dozens of prisoners were preparing for an open hunger strike, saying, "We cannot remain silents in light of what the hunger-striking prisoners are going through, and we will not leave them alone."
The faction's prisoners' authority also asserted that it would not allow for the Israeli occupation to pick out prisoners no matter their affiliation.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club and activists launched a solidarity campaign in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash, who has been on hunger strike for 131 days in protest of his administrative detention.
#Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu-Hawash continues his hunger strike in protest of "Israel's" unlawful, arbitrary detention. #FreeThemAll #Palestine pic.twitter.com/T9kfF16xEv
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The prisoners' movement in occupied Palestine had called on all resistance factions and powers in Palestine to intervene and save Hisham's life.
"The prisoners continue their battle against the occupation's prison administration until they seize all their rights and maintain their dignity," prisoner media reported. This came after they had previously said the Israeli prisons administration decided to ban visitation for all Hamas prisoners in the Israeli occupation's prisons.
