The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced the postponement of the prisoners' hunger strike until the evening, after it was scheduled to start this morning, Thursday, in order to provide an opportunity for dialogue with the occupation prisons authority.
The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs confirmed that the prisoners’ movement inside the occupation prisons is preparing to start a hunger strike within hours;
Unless the Israeli Prisons Administration accepts the demands made yesterday, Wednesday, by the High Emergency Committee for the strike.
The Prisoner's Club said that about a thousand detainees will start a hunger strike today, Thursday, from various prisons and factions.
He added in a statement that the prison administration is still on its position and refuses to respond to the prisoners' demands, most notably the retraction of the set of abusive measures that it is trying to impose on the prisoners, to impose more control operations, which in essence target the achievements of the captive movement, and infringe on their rights in terms of detention life.
The Prisoner's Club pointed out that the prisoners, since last August 22, have resumed their struggle steps that they suspended last March, after the prison administration threatened to impose its procedures again.
The prisoners' steps on the path of "disobedience and rebellion" were based on the laws of the prison administration, by refraining from going out to the so-called "security check", returning meals, in addition to wearing brown uniforms (chabas), closing departments, and dissolving regulatory bodies.
Historically, prisoners have carried out at least 25 collective strikes since 1967, in which they have been able to extract their basic rights, and female prisoners have actively participated in most of the strikes.
About 400 prisoners have also carried out individual hunger strikes since late 2011, most of them against administrative detention.
The number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons is about 4550, including 27 female prisoners, 175 minors, and 670 administrative detainees;
No trial or charge.