Today, Monday, prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons began a one-day hunger strike, in refusal to continue the occupation prison administration's systematic punitive measures against them.
According to a statement by the Prisoner Club, one of the last of these punitive measures is depriving them of visiting their families and the “canteen” for an entire month, and its recent attempt to make a wide change to the “Fora” system (leaving from the cells to the squares).
The club explained that this step is part of the struggle program announced recently by the National Emergency Committee, which was based mainly on "rebellion and rejection of prison administration laws, with the participation of all factions."
It is noteworthy that a state of extreme tension prevails in prisons for the ninth consecutive day after the prison administration reduced the time that prisoners spend in the “Fora” and the number of prisoners who will be allowed to leave at once, in the wake of Operation “Freedom Tunnel”, where the administration declined. Prisons abandoned the agreement represented in stopping their abusive measures and restrictions against the prisoners, and escalated the policy of restricting them.
The Prisoner's Club pointed out that the prisoners are closing the sections and refraining from going out for daily security checks and the yards for the ninth consecutive day, adding that the occupation prisons administration has strengthened the presence of prison suppression units.
It is noteworthy that the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons until the end of last January amounted to about 4,500 prisoners, including 34 female prisoners and about 180 children.