The chairman of the leadership of Hamas prisoners in Israeli occupation jails Abbas Assayed has threatened to go on an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with hunger strikers Ayman Al-Sharawne and Samer Al-Issawi.
The Ahrar center for prisoners' studies and human rights said in a statement on Wednesday that a message from Assayed, a Hamas leader, said that he was studying with organizational structures in prison going on hunger strike.
It quoted Assayed, who is serving 37 life sentences, as saying that his act would be to draw more attention to the case of Sharawne and Issawi who have been on hunger strike for more than four months.
Ahrar said that Assayed was upset because of the limited attention given to the case of both hunger strikers and expressed fears that one of them might die in the process of their prolonged hunger strike.
Assayed believes that the hunger strikers were not given the required attention especially on the part of Palestinian officials and civil societies.
