Wednesday marks the tenth day of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails.
The Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs says the health conditions of a number of the detainees have been seriously deteriorated. They’ve been transferred to hospitals and prison clinics. More than one-thousand-500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike campaign, led by senior Fatah official Marwan Barghouti. They’re protesting torture, ill treatment and medical negligence of prisoners by Israeli authorities. Barghouti’s wife says Israel prevents lawyers and international organizations like the Red Cross from visiting the inmates. She says the move is against a ruling by Israel's Supreme Court that declared the ban illegal.
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