{"id":256343,"date":"2021-08-04T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=256343"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:59:06","slug":"prisoners-hunger-strike-4-august-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/prisoners-hunger-strike-4-august-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners’ Hunger Strike \u2013 4 August 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 AUGUST 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

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Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n

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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Thank you, Steph.\u00a0 A number of Palestinian detainees went into hunger strike, had reached now 18.\u00a0 Some of them have been on hunger strike for 22\u00a0days.\u00a0 Some of them just joined the hunger strike recently, and yet there is no word from the Â鶹APP about this tragedy.<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Let me check.\u00a0 I personally had not seen those reports, but I will check for you.<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 And I have another related question.\u00a0 Also, the number of Palestinian corpse, or dead bodies, that had been killed by Israel have reached 81\u00a0now.\u00a0 Some of them have been there for years.<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Abdelhamid, can you start again?\u00a0 The number of?<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Palestinian bodies killed by Israel, they are kept in freezers.\u00a0 The corpse of those killed have been kept for many years, Some of them for months, some of them recently.\u00a0 But the number had reached 81\u00a0now, had been kept by Israel all this time.\u00a0 These bodies should be let go to their families to give them a final burial, and yet the UN had been ignoring this issue and had not been even mentioned in the final\u2026 in the monthly reports to the Security Council.<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ignored the issue.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s always important that families, wherever they are, on whichever side of the conflict, be able to get the remains of their loved ones.<\/p>\n

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For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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