Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails intend to resume on Monday a number of protest steps which they had suspended last March in order to pressure the Israeli prison service (IPS) to respond to their demands.
Initially the prisoners will refuse to go out for security checks tomorrow and later on Wednesday as part of their planned protest steps which may last for a maximum of two weeks according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
Afterwards their protest steps would culminate in an open-ended mass hunger strike if the IPS persisted in its repressive measures against prisoners.
The Captive Movement’s National High Emergency Committee which was formed by Palestinian prisoners in recent months to face Israeli punitive measures taken against them following the Gilboa jailbreak in September 2021 decided on Saturday to reactivate frozen protest steps after Israeli jailers reneged on their pledges to halt those measures.
These protest steps according to PPS are aimed in particular to pressure Israeli jailers to stop the frequent transfer of prisoners serving life sentences from one prison to another and also to improve the incarceration conditions of prisoners in general.
In another context three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jailers are still on hunger strike to demand an end to their administrative detention.
The administrative detainees are Khalil Awawdeh who has been on hunger strike for about 161 days and Ahmed and Idhal Mousa (brothers) who started their hunger strike 15 days ago.
Last Friday an Israeli court froze the administrative detention of Awawdeh but he announced that he would not stop his hunger strike until his jailers decide to release him.
The prisoner’s lawyer Ahlam Haddad affirmed that Awawdeh would not suspend his hunger strike because he was asking for his release and not for a freeze on his administrative detention.
