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Palestinians demanding better prison conditions
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-24 22:22
A Palestinian youth holds a picture of his
relative jailed in an Israeli prison as he jumps over a fire barricade
during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron, August 24, 2004. Israel
declared its hospitals off-limits on Tuesday to the 2,800 Palestinians on
hunger strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in
makeshift facilities behind bars if taken ill. [Reuters] |
Syrian teenagers protest in central Damascus
in support of Arab prisoners on a hunger strike for better conditions in
Israeli jails, August 23, 2004. [Reuters] |
Palestinian Aseel Mohammed Qandeel, 6, holds a
portrait of her father Mohammed who is being held in an Israeli jail,
during a protest calling for the release of Israel's Palestinian prisoners
held in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2004.
Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike last Sunday to demand better
conditions. [AP] |
An elderly Jordanian woman holds pictures of
Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners, jailed in Israeli prisons, during a
protest in front of the United Nations office in Amman, August 23, 2004.
Hundreds of Jordanians took part in a sit-in to show solidarity with their
relatives and fellow Palestinians who have gone on a hunger strike
demanding Israel stop strip searches, allow more frequent family visits,
improve sanitary conditions and install public telephones.
[AP] |
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