The committee of Palestinian prisoner families in the West Bank city of Nablus has called for the boycott of the upcoming municipal elections in a show of solidarity with a mass hunger strike by Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails. On May 13, Palestinians will go to the polls to choose 3,849 members of municipal and village councils across the West Bank. Nagham al-Khayat, the wife of hunger-striking prisoner Yasser Abu Bakr, said that the elections should be delayed until the end of the strike. “We are not against elections, but we have demanded that they be postponed until after the end of the...
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