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Israel Seeks Deal with Palestinian Hunger Strikers


(AFP) Shatha Yaish - Israel's prison service has offered to ease restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in a bid to end a mass hunger strike, sources told AFP on Thursday. The prisoners are protesting against solitary confinement, detention without charge and restrictions on family visits, education and various privileges. An official with the Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer said negotiations between prisoners and the Israel Prison Service appeared to be making progress. Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said authorities "are interested in containing the strike and ultimately ending it as soon as possible." "We don't want to see any of these prisoners hurt themselves."
2012-05-11 00:00:00
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