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Hunger-striker Bilal Diab writes will to family
Published Saturday 12/05/2012 (updated) 15/05/2012 21:01
Supporters have erected solidarity tents for hunger-striking prisoners across
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
JENIN (Ma'an) -- Hunger-striker Bilal Diab has sent a will to his family in the northern West Bank on his 75th day without food, relatives said on Saturday.

Diab, 27, has refused food since Feb. 29 to protest his detention without charge in Israeli jail.

His family, from Jenin-district town Kufr Rai, said they received his will on Saturday detailing his wishes in case of his death.

"We will have victory, but only through either martyrdom or immediate release -- not any partial solution as claimed by the prisons administration," Diab wrote.

Last week, representative for Fatah prisoners Jamal al-Rjoob said detainees affiliated to Fatah had accepted half the proposals offered by Israeli authorities in response to the strike.

But Yousef Rizqa, political adviser to Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, warned on Monday that Israel was trying to use party affiliations to sow rifts between the hunger-strikers.

"On the 75th day of my hunger strike, I am still determined, patient and focused on continuing against conspiracies, threats and solitary confinement by the fascist Israeli prison administration," Diab wrote.

Diab instructed his family keep his grave at ground level, in accordance with Islamic teaching, and distribute sweets at his funeral as a sign of celebration.

He asked his brother Homam to perform prayers for him, and freed hunger-striker Khader Adnan to lower him into his grave.

The young hunger-striker thanked all Palestinians, and Arab and Islamic nations for their support.

Diab wrote the will to his family on his 75th day on hunger-strike

The PA minister of prisoners affairs said Saturday that a comprehensive solution to widespread hunger strike action by prisoners is being discussed between Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian officials.

PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited a solidarity tent in Bethlehem and applauded the hunger-strikers, assuring prisoners' relatives that they would achieve success.

In the past month, around 2,000 prisoners joined a group of administrative detainees on hunger-strike, according to prisoners groups' estimates.

They are calling for improved conditions in Israeli custody, such as an end to solitary confinement and bans on family visits, in addition to ending administrative detention.

Diab and Thaer Halahla, 33, from Hebron -- both held without charge -- joined earlier hunger-strikes after Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi won release from detention without charge by refusing food.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel have urged Israel to transfer the prisoners to hospital after warning their health condition is now critical.
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1 ) Anne / Canada
12/05/2012 21:56
I am extremely sorry to read this latest report. I once wrote to three men of Arabic descent when they were still being held in detention in Canada, being held without charge. I believed that in fasting, they were torturing themselves. Once again, it seems that Israel is being assisted in its violent repression, which extends to its own citizens when they criticize its actions. But I am not able to know exactly how to understand this matter.

2 ) @ Anne #1 / Understanding Greatness
13/05/2012 02:07
I am sorry to read this senseless choice of death too, and this hunger-striker, Bilal Diab, may be a greatest martyr ever, because unlike the other suicide-bombing, murdering martyrs, Diab is NOT choosing to take anyone else down with him !!! Bilal Diab's choice seems desperate, sad, and foolish, but he's going to be a great martyr, without question.

3 ) Vacy / Australia
13/05/2012 02:31
I feel profound sadness and profound respect for Diab and Thaer and profound disgust for Israel and its western collaborators of this injustice and the occupation of Palestine.

4 ) southparkbear / usa
13/05/2012 03:23
feel free to give a copy to other candidates

5 ) mireille / France
13/05/2012 04:34
I' m truly amazed by this comment. Here are poitical prisoners on the brink of death, fighting for elementary rights, no detention without a proper trial, no isolation for long periods etc. this being the mere respect of international laws about prisoners. The Irish hunger strikers in 1981 fought for the same demands. Their agony shocked and angered and raised a huge solidarity movement, demonstrations all over the world. They won, paying the incredible price of 10 brave men.

6 ) 10,000 die in SYRYA-NOBODY CAR / why is the life
13/05/2012 09:05
of a HUNGER STRIKER IMPORTANT?

what kind of HYPOCRICY is this?

7 ) Carlos / Palestine
13/05/2012 09:42
peace, Hunger-striker Bobby Sands from his prison cell: "Let our revenge be the laughter of our children." ERIN GO BRAGH! VIVA PALESTINA!

8 ) Charity Clayton / UK
13/05/2012 10:22
How very sad that these prisoners feel driven to this action to merely to be allowed to exist without punishment or persecution, in their own land. We, the British should be ashamed, we keep so very quiet about this in our media and most of us seem to not know or care what our government was so instrumental in creating back in 1948. The very least we could and should do in the UK is to be aware and to add our voices to those of the Palestinians. It costs nothing and takes so little effort.

9 ) Ferdinand / UK
13/05/2012 14:27
I am sorry to see that Israel's failure to observe Human Rights, and the requirement to follow due legal process, gives its victims no choice but to starve themselves to death in an effort to get justice. Like South Africa, the time is coming when Israel will be forced to adopt the standards of civilised society.

10 ) Lisa / Norway
13/05/2012 15:05
Can sombody translate the letter in english?

11 ) Arnold / Canada
13/05/2012 16:08
This is voluntary suicide. allowed and condoned by the UN human rights org.

12 ) Charity Clayton / UK
13/05/2012 16:48
To No 6. People DO care about the Syrian deaths. But this article and it's comments are about Palestinians.

13 ) Ferdirand / UK
13/05/2012 19:36
#11 Arnold, voluntary suicide may well be allowed by the UN Human Rights organisation, However, the arrest, detention and torture of individuals without due legal process is NOT allowed, and is condemned. It is a basic right to be told what you have been charged with and to have a proper legal trial with legal representation. The hunger strikers have no other way of protesting and seeking justice other than to go on hunger strike, with the very real risk of dying.

14 ) Omar / Pakistan
14/05/2012 21:15
Voluntary killing yourself is suicide. Which is Haraam in Islam. No doubt their cases needs the worlds attention. But I hope they will not forget Islam's Rules.
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