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In a Saturday interview with Press TV, Richard Herman, with Orange County Friends of Palestine, pointed to marginalization of anti-Israel movements by the US in the past years and noted, "Those days are changing and today there are more and more actions against Israel, against the crimes that Israel commits and those are building and over time...they will mount up to the point where the UN will finally vote against Israel...."
"As the United States declines in its world domination, the UN and all the countries of the world will act against Israel," he pointed out.
The analyst noted that at present the UN is unable to take any action against Israel's crimes as the organization is extensively under the US sway.
The remarks come as more than 120 Palestinian inmates have been refusing to eat since April 24 to protest against Israel's arbitrary detention policy of so-called administrative detention, which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Hundreds of other Palestinian prisoners also joined the hunger strikers in solidarity.
The United Nations has voiced concern over the health of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Nearly 20 human rights groups and the Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners' Affairs recently wrote a letter to European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, to bring her attention to the situation of the hunger-striking Palestinians.
In 2012, over 1,500 Palestinian inmates staged a four-week hunger strike that ended after Tel Aviv agreed not to extend the jail terms of those in administrative detention.
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