URGENT Child prisoners from Azzoun on hunger strike

It has been the year of hunger strikes by Palestinians in Israeli prisons - Prisoners protesting against their treatment in jail or against lack of trial. But this now is the FIRST TIME (as far as we know) to have 20 juveniles - ie all under 18 - going on strike in prison - and friends in Azzoun tell us that 75% of them are from Azzoun.

What is going on with child prisoners is horrendous - and Azzoun has had it bad this year with dozens of young people newly arrested and put in prison.

Today I have been in touch with Ibrahem from Azzoun whose brother Mohammed is one of the young people in prison. He says how worried they are about him (but how proud). He says that with his brother there is a 17-year-old from Azzoun in prison who has been given a sentence of 16 years.

He says the reason the young people have gone on strike is in protest against beatings and bad treatment and demanding an end to solitary confinement.

And that arrests of young people in Azzoun are still going on.

Please, Knighton people, think of ways of raising this urgently with ordinary people and policy makers.