PNC calls for an urgent intervention to save the life of the hunger-striking prisoner Maher Al-Akhras

Palestine National Council (PNC) called for urgent and rapid intervention to save the life of the prisoner Maher Abdul Latif Hassan Al-Akhras, who was on hunger strike for the 74th consecutive day, in protest against the arbitrary Israeli administrative detention policy against him, while he is facing extremely dangerous health conditions.

In a statement issued today, Thursday, PNC warned of the danger of death threatening the life of the prisoner Al-Akhras (49 years old), who is married and has six children, the youngest of whom is a six-year-old girl. Al-Akhras faces, with his empty stomachs, the policy of the Israeli prisoners and the slowdown in his release.

PNC held Israel fully responsible for the life of the prisoner Al-Akhras, calling on human rights institutions and other international organizations to shoulder their responsibilities in this regard, and to break the cycle of the dominating silence, and hold Israel responsible for its actions.
Israel has violated and exceeded all international controls and standards in the treatment of Palestinian prisoners which are stipulated in all relevant conventions and treaties, to make its actions a war crime against Palestinian detainees, PNC added
PNC appealed to international and regional parliamentary unions and human rights committees in international parliaments to pressure the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and its occupation government to put an end to its policy of administrative detention as a method of collective punishment, which affected all age groups, including children, women, elderly, sick and political leaders.
PNC indicated that at a time when the world is facing the continuing spread of the Coronavirus, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to carry out daily arrests of Palestinian citizens, and transfer dozens of them to administrative detention.
There are (350) administrative detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons, PNC confirmed, stressing that this type of detention is considered an occupation collective punishment, especially if we know that the occupation authorities have issued more than (54) thousand administrative detention decisions since its occupation in 1967, from Among them (800) decisions since the beginning of 2020.

The PNC represents the supreme authority of the Palestinian people in all their places of residence. It sets PLO policies and plans to achieve the goals of the Palestinian people for self-determination, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and the return of refugees to their homes.After Al-Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, headed by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, decided to call for the convening of a Palestine National Council which met in Gaza in 1October 1948, which was the first Palestinian legislative authority to be established in the Arab state of Palestine. The Council then formed an all-Palestine government headed by Hilmi Abdel Baqi, who represented Palestine in the league of Arab States.The first national conference was held inJerusalem on 28May -2June 1964. This first National Council had 422 members, declared the establishment of the PlO, which represents the leadership of the Palestinian Arab people. The most important of which is the Palestinian National Charter, the Statutes of the Organization and others, and Mr. Ahmad Al-Shukairy was elected Chairman of the PlO.

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