In solidarity with the Palestinian Prisoners in huger strike

DP of male social media user.
Thousands of Facebook and Google+ users have today changed their profile pictures in solidarity with a hunger strike by 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The image is of a blindfolded face against a brown background.

The brown is the colour of the clothes imposed by the "Zionist entity" on the Palestinian prisoners. The writing on the right side of the prisoners' chest means The Israel Prison Service (Hebrew: שירות בתי הסוהר‎, commonly known in Israel by its acronym Shabas or IPS in English).

I just got signed in on facebook and found some friends the have changed their display pictures the same. I got wondered and a question raised up in my mind that why they have changed their DPs. When I asked a friend the question, she answered me;
"The Palestinian prisoners in Israel jail are at hunger strike and today people all over the world support their act and the user of social networking websites also changed their DPs of profiles, pages and groups in solidarity with the prisoners." This is really a great effort by the users who always support Palestine and its movement of freedom.

Monday is the International Day of Action for Palestinian Prisoners Hunger strike called for by the General Federation of Independent Trade Unions in Palestine.

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The text, circulated internationally in a number of language reads that the Federation "calls upon all Palestinians and those in solidarity with their cause throughout the world. It asks them to "stop whatever they are doing for 10 minutes at 12 am Jerusalem time (9am GMT) on Monday, May 14th, 2012, On the Twenty-Eighth Day of the Open Ended Hunger Strike of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails, leave their homes, cars, and workplaces and take a collective stand in solidarity with the ongoing Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike."

One in three of the 4,800 Palestinians serving time in Israeli jails began refusing food on April 17 in protest against detention without trial and to demand better conditions such as family visits and ending solitary confinement.

Abbas spoke as two of the hunger strikers, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla, entered their 75th day without eating, and after international rights groups and governments said they were concerned that prisoners could die if they continued to refuse food.
"The situation of the prisoners is extremely dangerous," Abbas told a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee.





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