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July 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The group gathered at the Erez crossing in northern Gaza Strip on Monday to cross through to the Ramun prison of the Tel Aviv regime.
Israeli authorities have prohibited family visits since June 2007.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Palestine, which facilitated the move, issued a statement on Monday, saying, “This is a first step and we hope that visits by residents of Gaza will resume in full.”
“We have repeatedly called for the resumption of family visits, which are a lifeline for detainees and their families. Under international humanitarian law, Israeli authorities have an obligation to allow the detainees to receive family visits,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Israel Prisons Service (IPS) said 24 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza would receive relatives for a few hours.
More than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike on April 17 in protest against the administrative detention and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime, demanding the reinstatement of family visits from the Gaza Strip.
The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, allows regime forces to make detentions without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
On May 14, the prisoners ended their strike after Israel agreed to an Egyptian proposal, which called on Tel Aviv authorities to move the Palestinian inmates from solitary confinement to regular cells and restart family visits.
One of the Palestinians who was going to visit her son told reporters at Erez on Monday, “You cannot imagine my joy at being able to meet my son Mohammed soon, to be able to see his face again after all these years.”
HSN/MA
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