Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are stepping up their protests against repressive measures by Israeli occupation. The prisoners are planning to dissolve the organizational bodies in all prisons on Sunday, Palestinian media reported on Saturday.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) told WAFA that dissolving the organizational bodies means that the occupation prison administration becomes obliged to deal with prisoners as individuals, and not through the bodies representing them.
There have been extreme tensions across Israeli prisons on Friday, as Israeli Prison Service (IPS) decided to double the isolation time of prisoners, take away electrical devices from several sections in the prisons, and summoned additional forces in several prisons.
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission said repression units were present in large numbers at the entrances to many jails as prison officials and intelligence officers have intensified their tours of prison departments, and that large numbers of police dogs were being used in an unprecedented manner and are continuously present near the entrances of the sections.
Earlier on Wednesday, Palestinian prisoners refused to leave their cells for security checks and returned the meals as a protest step approved by the prisoners’ Higher Emergency Committee after the IPS reneged on the agreements and understandings that were reached with the representatives of the prisoners last March related to issues and details of their living conditions.
The prisoners also decided on that Mondays and Wednesdays are days to implement the initial protest steps that will end early next September with an open hunger strike in all the prisons.
The PPS said the decision to go on hunger strike will depend on the position of the IPS, whether or not it continues with its actions against the prisoners.
There are around 4550 Palestinian freedom fighters in Israeli jails, including 31 women and 175 minors, including a girl, and more than 700 administrative detainees.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
