(With photos) RAMALLAH, Oct 23 (KUNA) -- Hundreds of family members of Palestinian prisoners held demonstrations in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem on Tuesday, expressing anger at the killing of a Palestinian prisoner in the Israeli Ketziot jail by Israeli forces yesterday.
The protestors who also demanded the release of their relatives to be included in negotiations aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process, held pictures of their captive relatives in Israeli prisons and wandered the streets of Ramallah.
The family members also protested at Israeli prison's policies against Palestinians in all of Israeli prisons, calling for their immediate release.
In Ramallah some 250 people, mostly women holding pictures of imprisoned husbands and sons, chanted "No peace, no surrender, while our prisoners are behind bars." The protesters also called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to halt his meetings with Israeli officials complaining at wrong practices exercised by Israeli prison authorities against Palestinian prisoners.
Last night, one Palestinian was killed in violent clashes between rioting inmates and Israeli guards armed with tear-gas, rubber bullets and batons at the Ketziot jail deep in the southern Negev desert.
Mohammed Al-Ashqar, a 26-year-old member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, died of his injuries in an Israeli hospital, he was jailed for five years but had only two months left to serve. (end) nq.mb KUNA 231806 Oct 07NNNN |
