Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails started on Monday a series of measures to protest the hard conditions imposed by the occupation’s prisons service.

Palestinian prisoners say the Israeli prisons service failed to fulfill its previous promise to ease severe restrictions that include, among other things, solitary confinement and the transfer of dozens of inmates to other prisons.

In previous months, prisoners announced a series of protests against the restrictions and threatened to go on a hunger strike.

Last March, however, they agreed to suspend their protests after reportedly receiving a promise from the IPS to ease the restrictions.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said the inmates would resume their protests on Monday.

It said they would refuse to leave their cells for routine security checks “as a step of disobedience against the prison administration laws.”

Source: Agencies