Head of Prisoners’ Media Office in Gaza Abdurrhaman Shadid revealed on Saturday that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails put conditions to start dialogue with Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on Sunday in order to end the state of tension which has been prevailing at prisons since two stabbing attacks had been carried out in Nafha and Negev jails last Wednesday.
Shadid disclosed that the conditions included having prisoner Mohammad Erman head of the higher committee of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails at the upcoming dialogue sessions.
He underlined that detainees will discuss the period of solitary confinement against both captives who carried out the stabbing attacks: Ahmad Nassar from Madama town south of Nablus and Khaled al-Silawi from the Gaza Strip.
Other conditions included halting the IPS search campaigns as well as humiliation practices against Palestinian detainees. A state of cautious calm is prevailing in prisons at the moment Shadid told the PIC reporter .
Shadid opined that the IPS is going to answer prisoners’ demands highlighting that it did not expect the reactions of Palestinian prisoners to its repeated and escalated violations against them in recent days.
