Palestinian prisoners declared Monday as a day of rage in all Israeli prisons and detention centers in protest against Israeli punitive measures.
The protest steps include a one-day hunger strike.
This came as a state of tension prevailed in Israeli prisons after the prison administration imposed new punitive measures against the prisoners further deepening their difficult detention conditions.
Meanwhile the sick administrative prisoners in Megiddo Prison decided in an escalatory step to stop taking medicines in protest against their illegal detention without a charge or trial.
Other prisoners are expected to also join the escalatory protest steps over the few next days.
This came as administrative detainees held without trial or charge continue to boycott Israel’s military courts in the occupied West Bank for the 45th day.
The 500 administrative detainees began the new year by refusing to show up for their court sessions.
The boycott includes the initial hearings to uphold the administrative detention order as well as appeal hearings and later sessions at the Supreme Court.
The prisoners noted that Israel’s use of the administrative detention policy has expanded in recent years to include women children and elderly people.
