The Palestinian Prisoners Club said today, Wednesday, that the prisoners of the Islamic Jihad movement began to disobey the Israeli prison laws in protest against the policy of abusing them, as punishment after 6 prisoners escaped and freed themselves before re-arresting them.
And the (non-governmental) club indicated - in a press statement - that the prisoners of jihad refused to stand on the number, and refused to go out when the security checks on the windows and floors.
He added that the jailers handcuffed the prisoners and forcibly removed them from their rooms for examination.
The club indicated that the prison administration transferred the majority of Islamic Jihad prisoners from their rooms to the rooms of other factions, prevented them from living together in one room, imposed high fines on them (unspecified), and transferred about 100 leaders to cells.
He stated that the factions in prisons are still in negotiations with the prison administration to stop these attacks.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Authority said that the occupation prisons administration is still launching a campaign - which it described as abusive - against the prisoners in Gilboa prison, accompanied by extensive searches between prison sections.
The authority said that repressive, retaliatory and provocative measures are being taken by the prison administration around the clock.
This was considered a continuation of the campaign that followed the escape of the six prisoners from prison.
The Commission considered that the escalation against the prisoners in Gilboa prison threatens the agreement concluded between the leaders of the prisoners and the administration and intelligence of the occupation prisons, and that the situation may explode at any moment.
On the sixth of this September, 6 prisoners dug a tunnel from their cell in Gilboa prison to the outside of the prison, and 4 of them were re-arrested on the 10th and 11th of the same month, while the last two prisoners were arrested, last Sunday.
Five of the escaped prisoners belong to the Islamic Jihad Movement, they are Nidal Nafeat, Muhammad and Mahmoud al-Ardah, Ayham Kammaji and Yaqoub Qadri, in addition to Zakaria al-Zubaidi, a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades affiliated with the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah).
Israel detains about 4,850 Palestinians in 23 prisons and detention centers, including 41 female prisoners, 225 children, and 520 administrative detainees (without charge), according to institutions specialized in prisoners' affairs.