PNA calls for AL emergency meeting on prisoners' hunger strike
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Monday called on the Arab League (AL) to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The Palestinian official news agency "Wafa" reported that the PNA handed a memorandum to the AL headquarters in Cairo, asking for an emergency meeting to discuss the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike.
"The memorandum aims at discussing the living conditions of around 6,000 Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli jails amid the Israeli oppressive assault on them, a reason that urged them to go for a hunger strike," said Wafa.
The news agency quoted an Arab diplomat as saying that AL probably will convene by the end of this week to discuss the prisoners' issue, adding that the PNA's request "is part of the Arab-Palestinian coordination."
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Monday asked its representative in the United Nations Reyad Mansour to bring the prisoners' issue to the UN Security Council.
The Palestinian and Arab prisoners went on a gradual hunger strike two weeks ago in 25 Israeli prisons, in protest of the tightened measures imposed by the Israeli prisons authorities on their living conditions.
English.news.cn 2011-10-10 20:00:50 FeedbackPrintRSS
RAMALLAH, Oct. 10 (Xinhua)
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