Six Palestinian prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday in protest at their exposure to suppression and their arbitrary transfer from Ofer jail.
The hunger strikers are Mohamed Khatba Osama Odeh Mu’taz Hamed Tha’er Hamayel Rami Hayfa and Shadi Shalaldeh according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
PPS said that the talks between representatives of prisoners and Ofer jailers failed after the latter insisted on not ending the isolation of some detainees and not bringing back others who were transferred from the jail.
The jail administration also refused to respond to other demands raised during the talks especially about the issues that led to the recent tension in the prison.
On August 4 Israeli prison forces stormed prisoners’ rooms in sections 20 and 19 violently assaulted them and transferred many of them to isolation cells and other jails.
Among the detainees who were assaulted in those sections were children under age 18.
Such practices prompted other prisoner in Ofer jail to refuse to take meals served to them by jailers or practice their routine prison activities.
The prison administration in turn has continued to shut down the commissary and the laundry room as part of oppressive measures against the prisoners.
