Palestinian captives to go on hunger strike

Palestinian captives in a Zionist detention center have threatened to go on hunger strike in protest at the death under bad conditions of an inmate.

The captives imprisoned by the Zionist regime in southern occupied Palestine are going on a hunger strike in protest against the death of a Palestinian political prisoner held in the Israeli desert detention camp of Bir-Shiva.

Fadil Shaheen, 48, from the Gaza Strip, a member of the Fatah movement, was pronounced dead on Friday morning due to medical negligence by the prison officials.

According to Palestinian sources, despite being diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure, Shaheen was refused proper medical help by the Zionist prison guards, which led directly to his death today from heart attack.

Issa Qaraqi, a Palestinian MP and head of the committee for the captives held by the Zionist regime, said in the Palestinian parliament, "... the Israeli army had intentionally refused to provide Shaheen with the right treatment which led directly to his death."

Qaraqi demanded that a special UN committee investigate the death of Shaheen, according to International Middle East Media Center.

The Palestinian Political Prisoners Society issued a statement on Friday, saying that the Israeli army does not provide Palestinian political detainees with medical help, a method adopted as additional punishment for detainees.

More than 11,000 Palestinians are imprisoned by the Zionist regime, including hundreds of children and women. At least 190 Palestinians have died of medical negligence and torture in Zionist prisons since 1967.