GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) –
Palestinians staged a rally in the Gaza Strip on Monday to show solidarity with hunger-striking detainees in the occupying regime’s prisons, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Two Palestinians, Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayan, have been on hunger strike for 96 days and 61 days respectively, to protest their so-called administrative detention in the occupying regime without trial or charge.
Organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the rally was held outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City.
“Israel is fully responsible for the life of the Palestinian hunger strikers,” PFLP member, Awad Al-Sultan told the rally.
He called on international human rights groups to send medical teams to examine the health conditions of the Palestinian hunger strikers and “to shed the light on the suffering of detainees in Israeli jails”.
The policy of so-called administrative detention allows the regime authorities to detain anyone for six months without charge or trial, which can be extended indefinitely.
According to the Palestine Prisoner Society NGO, there are around 4,700 Palestinian detainees in the occupying regime’s jails, including around 600 held without charge or trial.
In another development from the occupied territories, according to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the occupying regime demolished 300 buildings in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds since the beginning of the year.
The data is composed of each permanent closure or destruction of a residential or commercial property, or key piece of infrastructure such as water pipes, roads and network facilities.
The report issued by OCHA also warned that an imminent Zionist demolition of a Palestinian residential building, consisting of 12 housing units, based in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood of Silwan, will leave 74 Palestinians homeless, including 42 children.
Two of the households in the building are Palestine refugees, and another two would be displaced for the second time in two years, following previous demolitions.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the occupying regime’s insistence on illegal settlement construction and land expropriation policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, asserting that Paris supports the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
During a telephone conversation with the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Macron expressed his concern in the face of the growing tensions and worsening situation in the occupied lands.