A petition was launched Wednesday in France to make visible Palestinian political prisoners on hunger-strike in the jails of Israel whose Palestinian territories it has occupying for nearly 70 years.
Several dozen scholars and journalists from the Middle East have called for the media to inform about the tragedy of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and for the new president (Emmanuel Macron) and the new president The necessary pressure on the Israeli authorities.
Since April 17, it is recalled, between 1,600 and 1,800 Palestinian political prisoners have begun a hunger strike to demand, as a matter of priority, more dignified conditions of detention. To date, 6,500 Palestinians have been detained in Israeli military prisons, including 536 detained in administrative detention, ie without formal charges or trial, recall the perpetrators Of the petition.
The researchers and journalists who signed the petition, including Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, Dominique Vidal and Alain Gresh, stressed that they could no longer deal with the danger of death threatening, like a sword of Damocles, Palestinian prisoners Engaged in an increasingly harsh hunger strike.
There are moments like this when the necessary distance of the researcher and the journalist from his workplace must give way to commitment, they said, calling on the media to break the wall of silence and to inform Opinion on the tragedy in Israel-Palestine.
These researchers are also calling on the new French president and his government to exert the necessary pressure on the Israeli authorities, considering that it is more than urgent to act before Marwan Barghouti, Palestinian leader and initiator of the movement of hunger strike , Become the Bobby Sands of our time.
Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a sign of solidarity. On May 23, a call to the general strike was massively followed, symbolizing the popularity of the movement.
On Thursday, a large gathering of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners will be organized in Paris on the occasion of the International Day of Hunger Strike, so that France will act urgently for the respect of their rights and the satisfaction of their demands.
