Since September 25, 30 Palestinian prisoners imprisoned without charge or trial under “administrative detention” have gone on a hunger strike to demand an end to this policy, which currently imprisons more than 740 Palestinian prisoners under “evidence secrets”.
On Saturday October 1, the Lebanese communist activist Georges Abdallah announced that he was going on a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with this mobilization. In a letter addressed to the director of the Penitentiary Center of Lannemezan, he declared: “In solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance fighters imprisoned in Zionist jails who are on hunger strike to denounce their arbitrary detention and demand the repeal of the law allowing ‘administrative detention’, I am on hunger strike today October 1st”.
Imprisoned in France since 1984, Georges Abdallah is a Palestinian resistance fighter who is recognized as part of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Regularly, he participates in hunger strikes or refusal of trays in solidarity with his comrades imprisoned by the Israeli occupation, in particular in 2016, 2017 and 2019.
From: Secours Rouge