The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said on Wednesday that the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will refuse today to leave their cells for routine security checks and take the meals served to them.
Last Monday the prisoners started taking similar protest steps after they recently made an announcement in this regard.
A few days ago the Palestinian Captive Movement’s National Emergency Committee announced that it would start to launch a series of measures on Mondays and Wednesdays for the next two weeks before staging next month a mass hunger strike involving prisoners from different Palestinian factions.
According to PPS the prisoners aim to pressure Israeli jailers to improve their incarceration conditions.
The prisoners have accused the Israeli prison service of failing to fulfill its previous pledge to lift restrictions that were imposed on them in the aftermath of the jail break by six inmates from Gilboa Prison last year.
Those Israeli restrictions include among other things solitary confinement and the repeated transfer of dozens of inmates to other prisons.
