A sit in in Damascus, the Golan in solidarity with prisoners in Israeli jails

The committee in solidarity with Syrian prisoners in the Israeli jails, and the friends of the prisoners on Thursday observed a sit in, in front of the headquarters of the International red cross in Damascus in solidarity with the Syrian prisoners and detainees in the Israeli jails.

The participants in the sit in carried pictures for tens of prisoners and detainees in the Israeli jails and banners including statements condemning the tortures the prisoners receive in the Israeli jails.

They hailed the steadfastness of the detained prisoners and voiced solidarity and backing to them until all occupied Arab lands are liberated.

By the end of the sit in, one observer of the sit in read a statement addressed to the public opinion in which he stressed that the Syrian prisoners in the Israeli jails are the conscience of the nation."

They urged the world public opinion to end the detention of the prisoners.

Meantime, the chairman of the International red Cross committee office in Damascus Claude Voila was given a memorandum in the name of the participants in the sit in to the chairman of the committee in Geneva in which they urged him to work for halting the campaign of torture against the prisoners and to improve their health conditions and meet their humanitarian needs.

Meantime, the people of the Golan on Wednesday evening carried out a similar sit in solidarity with the Syrian prisoners detained in the Israeli jails who are observing hunger strike for the 6th running day in order to improve their living conditions inside prisons.

Hundreds of the citizens of the Golan gathered in crowds in Majdal Shams square where they raised the Syrian flags and pictures for the detainees as well as banners unmasking the policy of " slow killing " carried out by the prisons administration against the detainees in its detainees and prisoners.