The Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails entered on Wednesday day 16 of their disobedience steps which they staged in protest at the arbitrary punitive measures that were taken against them recently at the behest of far-right security minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
As part of their escalating protest program the prisoners closed yesterday all the sections in their jails for several hours obstructed the routine security checks they go through and wore the brown prison uniform.
Today the prisoners intend to organize nighttime protests in their cells to express their anger at the Israeli restrictions.
The prisoners already announced their intention to stage a mass open-ended hunger strike on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan as a last step aimed at pressuring the Israeli prison service to backtrack on the measures that were taken against them.
Recently the prisoners launched a number of disobedience steps after Ben Gvir started to give orders that deprived them of their rights including the closure of bakeries inside the prisons and limiting the shower time for each inmate to four minutes. In addition the prisoners are protesting against the transfer of hundreds of their mates to other prisons.
On Tuesday Ben Gvir issued new orders that would prevent many families from visiting their relatives in Negev jail with no justification and deprive the prisoners of obtaining clothes from their visitors.
