Repressive Arab States Want UN to Investigate Israel's Treatment of Terrorist Prisoners

"The Arab League on Thursday called on the United Nations to open an international inquiry into alleged 'violations' by Israel against terrorist prisoners in Israeli jails.

The pan-Arab body 'invites the United Nations and its relevant specialized agencies to send an international commission of inquiry to Israeli prisons,' representatives said in a resolution adopted Thursday and quoted by AFP.

The commission would 'view the violations being committed against the prisoners of war,' and to press international actors to compel Israel to abide by the Geneva convention.

The resolution comes amid a mass hunger strike by terrorist prisoners over demands ranging from improved medical care to greater access to telephone calls.

The terrorist prisoners, led by Fatah leader and archterrorist Marwan Barghouti, launched the hunger strike on April 17, but it has since showed signs of weakening.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role in planning suicide terror attacks during the second intifada from 2000 to 2005..."