Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is holding an emergency fundraising drive to cover the work they're doing to support the prisoner hunger strike. From their website:
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is fighting for the medical rights of Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahala, among others, Palestinian administrative detainees in the advanced stages of a hunger strike. We are in urgent need of financial support. Following the submission of 16 court petitions on behalf of hunger strikers since January, PHR-Israel’s allotted legal funds for the year are now fully depleted.
We are concerned that we will not be able to continue to defend the rights of of prisoners on hunger strike, nor take on any more of the scores of new cases we are currently monitoring.
To learn more see here.
In a world in which we know more about the Chinese ‘dissident’ Chen Guangcheng and hardly anything about Bradley Manning and more about Israel’s ‘suffering’ than about the Palestinians plight, the world seems to me an apathetic audience, with a very selective memory, dysfunctional moral codes and a hypocritical stance that’s sickening.
Israel ‘facing major West Bank uprising over Palestinian hunger strike’:
Israel has been warned that it faces a major uprising in the West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners taking part in one of the largest and most protracted hunger strikes ever staged in its jails were said to be close to death.
link to telegraph.co.uk
Thanks for the info. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel does good work.
I easily made a donation using PayPal.
• TO DONATE – link to phr.org.il
• MORE INFO – link to phr.org.il
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN HUNGER STRIKERS
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