GAZA, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- About 70 Palestinians began Saturday a hunger strike in solidarity with thousands of other Palestinians conducting a hunger strike while in Israeli jails.
Jamil Majdalawi, a senior leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine announced the number of hunger strikers is expected to mount within the coming days.
Hundreds erected a tent at the Unknown Soldier's monument in Gaza to express solidarity with the prisoners, who started the hunger strike last Sunday.
Majdalawi criticized the Israeli minister for interior security, Tsahi Hanegby, for statements he made earlier that he doesn't care about the prisoners' hunger strike.
Hanegbi explained that Israel would never respond to the demands of the Palestinian prisoners "even if their hunger strike continues for months."
"Hanegbi is a title of terrorism," Majdalawi told reporters, adding that "Our prisoners would say to Hanegbi that their strike would continue whether he accepts it or not, until they get their legal demands of freedom."
