The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who started on Monday and open hunger strike has reached 1500, the strikers Media Committee of Freedom and Dignity said on Tuesday. Israel charged him with directing suicide bombings and he was sentenced to five life terms.
Israeli prison service spokesman Assaf Librati said that 700 prisoners had announced on Sunday their intention to begin a hunger strike.
In the meantime, according to The Guardian, Barghouti has reportedly been moved from his cell at Hadarim to another prison, as yet undisclosed, although rumoured to be located in Haifa.
Nearly 6,500 Palestinians are being held in 22 Israeli prisons, said Qadoura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club that advocates on behalf of the inmates. Polls suggest that the 58-year-old Barghouti is the most popular choice among Palestinians to succeed the 82-year-old Abbas.
In a show of solidarity with their loved ones, the families and relatives of the protesting inmates launched a hunger strike in the West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.
The Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz reported this month that in the a year ago, the Palestinian Authority has arrested around 400 Palestinians at the request of Israel.
In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to consider Barghouti and his comrades partaking in the hunger strike as "political prisoners", noting that "they were murderers and saboteurs"- the statement clearly stated that they were tried and convicted, according to the law.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the New York Times after the newspaper published an op-ed written by Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.
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"When they ask for the basic rights like public telephone and regular visits by their families, these are legitimate rights", said Omar Yaghmour, the brother of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike.
He said Barghouti had been placed in solitary confinement because calling for the hunger strike was against prison rules.
Erdan says the prisoners receive all privileges required by worldwide law.
He said Israel has established field hospitals outside the prisons to respond to any immediate medical needs.
Israeli officials attacked the Times, saying they publish articles authored by killers, without fully disclosing their crimes and therefore readers do not know who they are.
"The paper recanted after we pointed it out to them", Netanyahu said, adding that calling Barghouti a political leader was akin to calling Syrian President Bashar Assad a doctor.
Marwan Barghouti, 58, was jailed by Israel for life for murders of Israelis during the 2000 to 2005 uprising.
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