Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that events in Israeli prisons may affect several fronts, and that Tel Aviv is ready to deal with any scenario, while various Palestinian areas witnessed marches and vigils in solidarity with the prisoners.
On Wednesday evening, Bennett held an assessment of the situation with the participation of the ministers of defense and internal security, the chief of staff and security officials, in light of the tension in Israeli prisons.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Authority announced the rebellion against the laws of the occupation prisons, in rejection of the repressive measures against the prisoners, at a time when a state of extreme tension prevailed in a number of Israeli prisons.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club reported that a number of prisoners set fire to rooms in "Megiddo" prison after the occupation attempted to transfer Islamic Jihad prisoners to other prisons.
The club reported that the occupation authorities summoned additional forces from the army to suppress the Palestinian prisoners in the "Negev" prison. The club said that a state of tension prevails in several Israeli prisons against the background of punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners.
He stressed that Israeli special units had stormed a number of prisons, abused the prisoners and transferred a number of them to other prisons, noting that all detainees in all prisons announced that they would face Israeli punitive measures.
Prisoners set fire to rooms in Megiddo Prison (communication sites)
Military reinforcements
For its part, the Israeli Army Radio announced the summoning of about 30 soldiers from the Givati Brigade to the Negev Desert Prison, to deal with the events that occurred inside the prison sections.
The Israeli Prison Service said that it evacuated Section 6 of the Negev Prison of all Palestinian prisoners after they set fire to seven rooms;
In response to the repression and abuse carried out by the prison administration against the prisoners.
The authority added that it is preparing for the possibility of the protests of Palestinian prisoners spreading to other prisons, and pushing the repression teams to several locations, but it indicated that it was able to control the situation in the Negev prison.
The Prisoners Information Office also called on human rights institutions and the Red Cross to intervene urgently, in light of what it called the heinous attack of repression against the prisoners of the Negev and Megiddo prisons.
repression attack
Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces forcibly dispersed marches in support of prisoners in cities in the West Bank.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 100 demonstrators were injured in clashes with the occupation in the areas of Hawara and Beita in Nablus.
These developments come, after Tel Aviv announced on Monday morning that 6 Palestinian prisoners managed to escape at dawn through a tunnel they dug in Gilboa Prison, which is one of the most fortified prisons of the occupation and is nicknamed in Israel as "the iron safe", because of the tight procedures in it to prevent any escape attempt.
The six prisoners who managed to escape are Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (affiliated with the Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah") in the Jenin camp, and five prisoners from the Islamic Jihad movement from the Jenin area. Fouad Al-Kammji and Mahmoud Abdullah, casual.