Barghouti
Photo: Gil Yohanan
Dozens of hunger striking security prisoners taken to the hospital
The IPS sends dozens of hunger strikers from the prisons to the Wolfson and Emek Hospitals, and dozens more are expected to be transferred to hospitals throughout the country.
Dozens of security prisoners who were hunger striking in prisons throughout the country were taken Sunday to Wolfson Hospital in Holon and HaEmek in Afula. The Israel Prison Service expects dozens of additional prisoners to be taken to hospitals in the coming hours.
In the course of examinations conducted by IPS doctors for security prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for more than four weeks, the doctors decided that the medical condition of some of the prisoners requires medical attention at the hospital.
Supporters of the hunger strikers
Hundreds of security prisoners opened an indefinite hunger strike last month in order to improve their conditions in Israeli prisons. The leader of the struggle was Marwan Barghouti. The prisoners' demands document includes the installation of public telephones, similar to telephones installed for criminal prisoners.
The prisoners already transferred to hospitals were under heavy IPS security. According to estimates, dozens of security prisoners will be taken to hospitals across the country in the coming hours.
