Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) prisoners have suspended their nine-day hunger strike on Friday, after agreements about their prison conditions were reached with occupation authorities.
“The prisoners decided to suspend the hunger strike after they scored victory against the administration of the occupation prison authorities,” said PIJ official Tareq Ezaddin.
“The victory is a turning point in the confrontation with the [Israeli] jailer,” Ezaddin said.
A statement issued by the leadership of the PIJ prisoners held in Israeli prisons confirmed that the hunger strike, which began nine days ago, has ended.
Sheikh Khader Adnan, a senior PIJ official in the northern West Bank, congratulated the families of the prisoners of PIJ for ending the hunger strike.
Al-Mayadeen revealed on Friday that occupation’s prison authorities agreed to end solitary confinement of the movement’s prisoners.
Some 250 PIJ inmates went on hunger strike nine days ago in protest of restrictions imposed on them following the escape of six prisoners from high-security Gilboa Prison last month.
Five of the escapees belong to PIJ. On Thursday, the PIJ threatened to expand the hunger strike to include all 400 PIJ prisoners if the demands of the inmates are not met.
The prisoners demanded that the so-called Israel Prison Service rescind its decision to transfer them to other prisons and place some of them in solitary confinement following the prison break.
Source: Israeli media and Al-Mayadeen
