The Tunisian Association to Support Palestine has organized on Wednesday a sit-in outside the UN headquarter in Tunis in solidarity with the Palestinian strikers in Israeli jails, and protesting against the administrative detention.
The sit-in was attended by the liberated prisoner Mahmoud Sarsak and representatives of Palestinian students in Tunisia and representatives of the Palestinian Islamic bloc.
The Tunisian association, represented by Olfa Toumi, called on the UN to intervene urgently to save the Palestinian prisoners’ lives, particularly Ayman Sharawna and Samer al-Issawi, and to protect the third convention on the treatment of prisoners of war during times of conflict.
Mahmoud Sarsak stressed in his speech on the difficult conditions suffered by the prisoners in Israeli jails, denouncing the human rights organizations’ role that does not live up to the Palestinian prisoners’ sacrifices.
For his part, the representative of the Islamic bloc thanked the Tunisian association to support Palestine for organizing the sit-in and thanked the Tunisian revolution for giving this opportunity to defend the prisoners’ freedom on international level.
The sit-in was ended by handing a protest letter to the UN representative in Tunisia, demanding urgent and immediate international intervention for ending the administrative detention.
