News Highlights:
- After over 60 days of hunger strike, two more Palestinian detainees are at risk of death and have been transferred to an Israeli hospital; 4 more prisoners are also currently hospitalized in an Israeli prison medical facility, including Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- Israeli government officials ask for a further delay in evacuating an illegal settlement outpost, deep within the occupied West Bank.
- Israel plans to build 9 hotels in a settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, in a bid to undermine Palestinian tourism in Bethlehem according to a Palestinian researcher and settlement expert.
Feature:
A live interview with Khaled Almudallal, the operations coordinator for UFree, the European Network to Support the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners. Khaled, who joined us from the UK, detailed how the group started a year ago in Oslo, Norway and is now working in many places across Europe. He gave us an update on the Palestinian hunger strikers, and noted that almost 2000 detainees have joined the strike. Khaled talked about the demands of the prisoners, which include both improvements to basic living conditions, as well as an end to the practices of administrative detention without charge or trial and extended solitary confinement.
Here is an audio file of this show: