(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The conference was launched by the Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki’s speech, in which he stressed on the importance of the Palestinian cause for the Tunisian people. We want to say to the world through this conference that we, as an Arab and Muslim nation, will always stand behind the Palestinian people who taught us the revolution’s meaning and how to revolt against tyranny, Dr Marzouki said, calling on the international community to bear its responsibility in the face of Israeli violations He stressed that Tunisia is open for all the Palestinian people and the Palestinian students. For his part, Sheikh Raed Salah called for forming an executive committee to follow the conference’s results. For his part, the head of the organizing committee of the conference stressed, in his speech, the need to criminalize normalization with the Israeli occupation in the Tunisian constitution. Liberated prisoner, Mahmoud Sarsak, who had gone on an open hunger strike until his release from Israeli jails, told PIC reporter that the conference came as a result of the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike that succeeded in attracting international attention. French journalist, Claude Zurbach, said in a statement to the PIC reporter that he trusts time, technology, and media to change the Palestinian prisoners’ image in Western society, stressing on the important role of such events to internationalize the prisoners’ issue.
Nour Hayati, the representative of the international Parliament, condemned the Israeli practices against the Palestinian prisoners; practices such as solitary confinement that violates the international and humanitarian law. The conference first session was ended by the liberated prisoners’ speeches including Ahlam Tamimi, Abd Karim Hanini, and Fouad Kacem al-Razem who stressed that this conference highlighted the prisoners’ issue as well as the Palestinian national constants.
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