Palestinians voice unity with prisoners in Israeli jails

The protesters gathered in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Saturday and called for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
 
They were holding pictures of Samer al-Issawi, who has been on hunger strike since July 2012 in protest against the Israeli regime's brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
 
Issawi was released along with over a thousand other prisoners in a prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas back in 2011. But he was rearrested and put in jail by the Israeli regime only a few months later.
 
On April 2, cancer-stricken prisoner Maisarah Abu Hamdiah lost his life in an Israeli jail due to lack of medical care.
 
Following the report of Abu Hamdiah’s death, acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas said he held the Israeli regime responsible for the death of the 64-year-old inmate.
 
He said that the PA had worked to get the prisoner released for treatment but the Israeli regime “refused to let him out, which led to his death.”
 
Hamdiah’s death shows Tel Aviv regime’s “arrogance and intransigence over the prisoners,” Abbas stated.
 
More than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial.