GAZA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Jailed Ahmed Sa'adat, chairman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine announced on Sunday that he hunger strikes in solidarity with prisoners.
Sa'adat has been imprisoned for about two years into a Palestinian jail in the West Bank city of Jericho, where his jail is guarded by British and American guards.
Sa'adat decided to begin his hunger strike in solidarity with thousands of Palestinian prisoners held into Israeli jails who went on a gradual open-ended hunger strike to protest what they called "the humiliating policy against them."
Sa'adat told reporters on telephone from inside his cell that he started a hunger strike in sympathy with "my brothers and comrades into the Israeli jails."
He also said in a communiqué that "the struggle of our brave prisoners into Israeli prisons will be continued to defend the freedom of the Palestinian people in confronting the Israeli war of elimination carried out against them."
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