Female detainees launch hunger strike in Israeli jails

Detainees Study Center said that Palestinan Fateh female detainees imprisoned by Israel launched a Hunger Strike to show solidarity with the detainee Amna Mona, who is confined to solitary in Al Ramla Israeli prison.

In a letter addressed to the Center, the detainees stated that this strike comes to practice pressure on the Israeli prison authorities in order to call off a recent order extending the solitary confinement of Mona.

Mona is suffering from several physical and psychological problems and is in solitary confinement in Al Ramla prison.

Last week, Mona, who was kidnapped by Israeli forces on January 17, 2001, started a hunger strike in protest to her ongoing solitary detention and the bad living conditions.

Meantime, Israeli occupation forces arrested today nine citizens in the West Bank(WB) cities of Nablus and Qalqiliya, security sources said.

They told WAFA that Israeli soldiers, backed by military vehicles and bulldozers, stormed Nablus city from different directions amid fire shooting and sonic grenades. They conducted a search campaign into citizens’ houses in al-Yassimina and Khan al-Tujjar areas in the Old City and arrested seven citizens, leading them into an unknown location.

In Qalqiliya, Israeli soldiers arrested two citizens and led them into an unknown spot, witnesses said.