The Supreme Emergency Committee of the Captive Movement is scheduled to deliver on Tuesday a letter to the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) confirming the prisoners’ decision to go on hunger strike.
This came after the failure of the negotiations conducted over the past few days between the prisoners’ committee and the IPS.
The Captive Movement had earlier declared a set of protest steps in all Israeli prisons last month that include a mass disobedience and an open hunger strike next Ramadan.
Ahead of the mass hunger strike they intend to start on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday the prisoners on Sunday released a recorded message containing their wills.
They called on the Palestinian people not to leave them alone in their fight for their rights and freedom stressing that they would remain “projects of martyrdom until their chains are broken.”
They also urged the Palestinian masses to increase their solidarity with their compatriots in Israeli jails as they intend to stage their open-end hunger strike on the first day of Ramadan.
Around 4780 Palestinian citizens including 29 women 160 children and 941 administrative detainees are currently held in Israeli prisons.
