One of the refugees, who are detained at “Ghazi Baba” prison in the Macedonian city of Skopje, confirmed, to the AGPS, that about 450 Syrian and Palestinian refugees are continuing their hunger strike despite the Macedonian authorities cutwater and power as a punishment procedure to force them to stop their hunger strike.
 The refugee said, about the details of the detention, and who asked not to mention his name for fear of being harassed by the Macedonian police, that around 450 refugees, women, youth and children, including dozens of Palestinian refugees, are detained in the Macedonian prison in harsh living conditions for a period ranging between 45 days and 5 months, he also confirmed the assaults of a number of refugees who were severely beaten.
The refugee also added that they are detained in narrow place, where there is no warm water for bathing in spite of the cold weather which led to infection of many children with skin and respiratory diseases, noting that the doctor in charge of them refuses to provide any treatment for them. In addition that the food is only some butter, jam and a loaf of bread and sometimes canned sardines, noting that all those reasons, in addition to not release them has led to the hunger strike, which was faced by the Macedonian authorities with greater straiten, as they cut off electricity and water in an attempt to prevent them from continuing their strike which began several days ago, as he emphasized the continuation of refugees on hunger strike until they are released as happened with some of them several weeks ago.
The detained refugee said that the Macedonian authorities detain us as witnesses to the smuggler, who took us from Macedonia to Greece, as we were supposed to follow our journey towards the Nordic countries, but while we were in a houses in Macedonia, the police raided the apartment of the smuggler and arrested them several weeks ago.
The refugee renewed his call for the Palestinian Embassy in Bulgaria, the PLO, the Palestinian factions, the international organizations led by UNRWA, the human rights organizations, and the human rights activists to intervene and work to put an end to their suffering and release them to complete their way to get to northern Europe.
It is noteworthy that Macedonia has become one of the stations which the Palestinian refugees fleeing the war in Syria, where they complete their way after their arrival in Greece then Macedonia and finally complete their destination.