The Palestinian Captive Movement decided to start a set of protest steps that include a mass disobedience and an open hunger strike next Ramadan.
According to a statement issued by the Captive Movement on Monday evening the protest steps came in rejection to the Israeli punitive measures imposed against the prisoners since the right-wing minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was sworn in.
The statement pointed out that the Palestinian prisoners are readying themselves for organized disobedience which they anticipate will escalate into a full-scale hunger strike.
On 6 January one week after assuming the post of Israel’s security minister Ben-Gvir visited Nafha prison considered one of Israel’s most harsh and severe prisons for Palestinians. Since then the IPS has begun moving prisoners and transferring them between the 20 prisons used exclusively for Palestinian political prisoners.
Following his visit Ben-Gvir tweeted that “those who murdered Jews would not receive better conditions than the existing ones” before stating his aim to pass “the death penalty law for terrorists”.
Since the security minister’s visit the IPS has transferred at least 70 prisoners from Hadarim prison to Nafha prison including veteran Fatah leader Marwan al-Barghouti and other high-profile prisoners.
Meanwhile Israeli special forces stormed Section 16 of Ofer prison and conducted extensive search operations on Monday.
The raid is the third of its kind since the start of the year.
