{"id":18789,"date":"2012-04-23T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=18789"},"modified":"2012-04-23T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:52:35","slug":"65-egypt-prisoners-go-on-hunger-strike-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/04\/65-egypt-prisoners-go-on-hunger-strike-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"65 Egypt Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>65 Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails began a open-ended hunger strike, according to a report by the Israeli Yedioth Ahronot, quoted by Egypt\u2019s state-owned news agency MENA on Tuesday [17 Apr 2012].<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Prisons Authority also on announced Tuesday that three Egyptian detainees began a hunger strike to demand their release.<\/p>\n<p>The 65 Egyptians are held in various prisons in the Negev Desert in the South of Israel, according to statements by Ibrahim El-Darawi, head of the Palestinian Studies Center in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the prisoners protested their exclusion from the prisoner swap deal for Ilan Grapel, the Israeli-American, who was detained in Egypt in June 2011 on charges of espionage, before he was released in exchanged for 25 Egyptian prisoners in October.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bikyamasr.com\/66400\/65-egypt-prisoners-go-on-hunger-strike-in-israel\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 bikyamasr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>,<\/span> which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65 Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails began a open-ended hunger strike, according to a report by the Israeli Yedioth Ahronot, quoted by Egypt\u2019s state-owned news agency MENA on Tuesday [17 Apr 2012].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}