GAZA (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have threatened to go on an open-ended hunger strike by end of May to protest their inhuman incarceration conditions.
The rapporteur of the PLC’s prisoners committee has said that the prisoners explained in a message recently received from them that they were mainly protesting the Israeli prison authority’s policy of solitary confinement which they dubbed as “slow death”.
The message noted that some of the prisoners were being held in isolation cells for the fourth consecutive year and added that even women prisoners were not spared this policy.
The prisoners are also protesting the IPA’s deliberate medical neglect continued policy of strip search visit deprivation and imposing heavy penalties for trivial reasons.
They said that the IPA was gradually withdrawing their gains secured during past strikes such as allowing food supplies from outside the jail. They added that they suffer from acute shortage in foodstuff clothes and detergents.
The prisoners who also protested the continued renewal of administrative detention orders without charge or trial against dozens of internees said that they were experiencing the worst political economic and legal conditions since 1967 asking all concerned parties to reactivate their question on all political and legal levels.
