European demand to improve the situation of prisoners

Occurred more than a hundred parliamentary and political European petition calling on Israel to respect international law in the treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in prisons, in turn denounced the Arab Organization for Human Rights passiveness of international and Arab efforts necessary to protect the lives of more than two thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike in mid-April / April 2012.

The Council on Foreign Relations of the European Palestinian in an official statement today, the petition called for improving the living conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention, and adopted a part of the demands of the prisoners on hunger strike in particular end the solitary confinement against them, and allow their families to visit them.

The claims involved the European call is responsible for Security and Foreign Affairs at the European Commission Catherine Ashton, to put pressure on Israel to meet the demands of the prisoners of humanity, which guaranteed them by international law.

 The European Council on Foreign Relations launched a wider campaign of Palestinian political pressure in Europe to support the demands of the prisoners on hunger strike, through a series of meetings held with the European Parliament and the executive, led to raising the issue of striking prisoners in the meetings of the European Parliament and the parliaments of European countries.

The Director of the Council on Foreign Relations of the European Palestinian in Brussels Arafat Madi, that it is scheduled to bring up the subject of prisoners today in the parliamentary session, the normal expected that the result of those efforts from the pressures of the seriousness of the Israeli occupation of the response to the demands of the prisoners, stressing that their case did not come by and put on .

Condemnation of human rights
He added that it exceeds the demands humanity to reject the ill-treatment against the practice, and expected to increase the momentum of interaction with prisoners even after the strike.

In the same context, the European Commission issued a statement calling on Israel to respect the rights of Palestinian prisoners, and treated according to international law to ensure the provision of treatment to patients because of the strike and allow them to meet their families.

In the meantime, said the Arab Organization for Human Rights The Israeli occupation continues to arrest about 4,700 prisoners in isolation from the legal safeguards guaranteed by the international standards of human rights and international humanitarian law.

She added that in a unique position at the international level, remains the Israeli occupation of the sole authority in the world to legalize forms of torture and inhumane sanctions against the prisoners and detainees, as the detention of half the detainees at least outside the occupied territory to which they belong, and drops them immunity granted to them to ban tried under the Conventions Third and Fourth Geneva.

The organization expressed concern about the health situation deteriorating for nearly 15 Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike for a period ranging between fifty and seventy days, including Captured Rebel Hlahalh and Bilal Diab, who arrived for hunger strike for about seventy days, as well as some of the figures of prisoners such as the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmed Saadat, who was transferred to a hospital with others and try to Ramla force them to eat forcibly.