AMMAN — The
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said on Saturday that it is
following up, through the embassy in Tel Aviv, on the situation of Jordanian
Abdullah Al-Barghouti who is conducting a hunger strike in an Israeli prison,
according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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The ministry spokesman, Ambassador Haitham
Abu Al-Foul, said that “the embassy contacted the Israeli Prison Service”
regarding Barghouti, to check on his health.
Barghouti, who is serving 67 life-time
sentences, is or the ninth day of his hunger strike, protesting his continued
solitary confinement since May 31, according to the
Palestinian news agency,
Wafa.
Barghouti’s family said it holds the Israeli
prison responsible for any harm caused to him, as he suffers from several
health problems.
Five other prisoners are also continuing
their open hunger strike in Israeli prisons to achieve certain demands,
including the cancellation of the policy of administrative detention and of
solitary confinements.
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