The Palestinian prisoners decided to rescind their hunger strike, which they started today, Thursday, after the Israeli occupation prisons administration canceled arbitrary measures against them, while the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, affirmed the resistance's readiness to fight a battle to defend the prisoners.

The Supreme National Prisoners Emergency Committee said - in a statement today, Thursday - that the occupation authorities' retraction of their procedures indicates the solidity of the prisoners' position and their unity within families.

According to a statement by the prisoners, the Israeli Prisons Authority retracted the decision to arbitrarily transfer prisoners with life sentences periodically, and decided to stop the arbitrary measures against them and responded to their demands.

The Emergency Committee appreciated the position of the Palestinian masses of all sects, to support their cause and their readiness to support their battle, and saluted the prisoners for their patience and readiness in the face of violations of the occupation and the interest of prisons.

The prisoners of the Fatah movement in the prisons of the Israeli occupation made an appeal to the Palestinian masses with a general mobilization, and to be ready to support the prisoners in their hunger strike inside the Israeli prisons.

The prisoners of the Fatah movement affirmed in a written message that the Palestinian street standing by the prisoners in this battle is the strongest weapon, and the final word, to shorten the duration of the strike and achieve the prisoners' demands as soon as possible.

It is noteworthy that Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawda suspended his hunger strike, which lasted 127 days, yesterday, after his lawyer managed to extract a written decision from the Israeli Military Prosecution to release him on the second of next October.

In this context, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces arrested today the freed prisoner Omar Al-Jabari and his brother from their home in Jenin in the northern West Bank.


Resistance vows

For his part, Ismail Haniyeh said that the Palestinian resistance is ready to take any plunge in order to defend the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Haniyeh stressed - in a press conference in Istanbul - that the resistance will not accept the continued uniqueness of the Israeli prison administration in the prisoner movement, as he put it.

He stressed that liberating prisoners in Israeli prisons is a priority for Hamas.

In a related context, the District Court in the city of Beersheba, inside the Green Line, decided to reject the appeal request in the case of the Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Manasra, under the pretext that the anti-terrorism law will apply to him.

Defense lawyer Khaled Zabarka said that the court rejected the appeal request to release Manasra on the grounds that his health condition is not dangerous.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Manasra, who has been detained for 7 years, suffers from a difficult health condition due to the policy of solitary confinement he has been subjected to in Ramle prison for 10 months.