{"id":2159,"date":"2012-05-07T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luxorbis.org\/friedensplattform.at\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2012-05-07T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T07:21:04","slug":"solidaritaetshungerstreik-mit-den-palaestinensischen-gefangenen-in-italien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Solidaritätshungerstreik mit den palästinensischen Gefangenen in Italien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear all, below a letter we sent, as a network of solidarity groups from Roma – Italy, to the Italian Foreign Minister to ask to take action with the Israeli government against the collective punishement used against the palestinian political prisoners. We also decided to have three days hunger strike in solidarity with the palestinian politica prisoner and the request presented by them. The hunger strike is joined, among others, by Luisa Morgantini (former Vice President Eu Parliament), Moni Ovadia (director,actor, writer), Giovanni Franzoni (theolog, writer from San Paolo Community), Vincenzo Vita (senator from Democratic Party).<\/strong><\/p>\n

To Guido Terzi di Sant’Agata<\/p>\n

Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n

Rome, April 4, 2012<\/p>\n

Dear Honorable Minister,<\/p>\n

we represent a network of associations, movements and individuals\u00a0united in the struggle to end the
\nIsraeli military occupation, to support the freedom and self-determination of Palestinian people
\nwho have been living in the Occupied\u00a0Territories since 1967, as well as the application of the International law.<\/p>\n

We are writing to ask you to take immediate action\u00a0with the Israeli authorities in order to\u00a0save the<\/p>\n

lives of Bilal and Diab Thar Halahleh, who have been on hunger strike for 67 days
\nasking to be released\u00a0from the administrative detention which Israel illegally applies to hundreds of Palestinian citizens.<\/p>\n

We are also\u00a0asking you to take the necessary steps\u00a0so that\u00a0the Israel prison authorities accept the
\nprisoner’s requests and\u00a0stop\u00a0the collective punishment against the hunger strikers, such as\u00a0repeated\u00a0and violent body search,\u00a0interruption of out-of-cell time, fines, solitary confinement, transfers, corporal punishment, denied access to independent doctors\u00a0and suitable medical treatment.<\/p>\n

It has been since April 17, 2002 that Palestinian political inmates have started their hunger strike and
\npresented several requests concerning the respect of their own dignity and\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

First among\u00a0their requests is\u00a0the ending of administrative detention (there are Palestinians
\nwho have been in prison for more than 12 years without any trial), of\u00a0 solitary confinement\u00a0and other punishing measures, such as torture and being denied\u00a0visits by their relatives and attorneys.
\nThis\u00a0especially applies to\u00a0prisoners in the Gaza Strip, who have not been allowed to see their relatives since 2007.<\/p>\n

The inmates on hunger strike, an estimated\u00a0number of 2500, are also claiming\u00a0their rights to education and medical care. In fact, there are several examples, recorded not only by the Palestinian Association for Human Rights, but also\u00a0by the Red Cross and the Israeli organization Btselem, of inmates who had no access to medical treatments for cancer, injuries, eye problems and inflicted torture.<\/p>\n

The prisoners in the Israeli jails are 4700, among\u00a0which there are 8 women, 190 juveniles, 320 in administrative detention, 19 in solitary confinement, 27 Parliament members, 120 who have been in prison since before 1994, 1000\u00a0in need of medical treatment.
\nTheir daily life conditions besides being\u00a0illegal are deeply inhuman and all this is documented by
\nwww.betselem.org<\/a> and\u00a0www.addameer.org<\/a>, as well as by other organizations among which are
\nRed Cross, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0inform you that, to express solidarity towards the Palestinian prisoners, the solidarity network based in Rome will be on hunger strike for three days, from May 5 to May 7. This initiative has been joined among others by writer, director and actor\u00a0Moni Ovadia, by Senator Vincenzo Vita, Giovanni Franzoni, member of the Comunit\u00e0 San Paolo, and by Luisa Morgantini, former Vice President of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0trust in your personal sense of responsibility and in your sensibility and we hope that our appeal, as well as the one coming from the Palestinian Council for Human Rights that we are attaching here will not go unheard.<\/p>\n

While awaiting to hear from you we remain at your disposal for a meeting or for any clarification you may need.
\nOur best regards.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the Rome Network of Solidarity to Palestine,<\/p>\n

Luisa Morgantini, Nino Lisi, Loretta Mussi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear all, below a letter we sent, as a network of solidarity groups from Roma – Italy, to the Italian Foreign Minister to ask to take action with the Israeli government against the collective punishement used against the palestinian political prisoners. We also decided to have three days hunger strike in solidarity with the palestinian … Solidaritätshungerstreik mit den palästinensischen Gefangenen in Italien<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palaestina-solidaritaet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedensplattform.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}