The Palestinian Prisoners Club said today, Tuesday, that hundreds of Palestinian detainees in "Nafha" prison in southern Israel have embarked on a disobedience as a step of protest against measures aimed at harassing them.
The Israeli occupation prisons administration had informed the prisoners earlier that it was about to implement a procedure to determine the amount of water a prisoner is allowed to use daily for his natural needs, and to reduce the shower period so that each section (120 prisoners) has one hour per day.
This measure comes within the framework of a series of retaliatory measures issued by the extremist, racist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, aimed at depriving prisoners of their most basic rights.
These retaliatory measures, which are expected to include 2,000 prisoners until next March, include work to enact a law to execute Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Jews, prevent Arab Knesset members from visiting Palestinian prisoners, carry out arbitrary transfers of prisoners from one prison to another, and prevent prisoners from From eating fresh bread to closing the ovens inside Rimon and Gilboa prisons, and establishing a section dedicated to isolating Palestinian female prisoners.
disobedience steps
The association said in a statement that "the prisoners will begin today to implement the steps of disobedience that they announced yesterday," which is represented in wearing the "Shabas", which is the brown dress imposed by the prison administration on the prisoners, and this step means their willingness to escalate the confrontation, in addition to closing the sections, so that All aspects of daily custodial life related to prison systems cease.
Among the steps also - according to the Prisoners' Club - obstructing the security check of the rooms (carried out after the prisoners leave the prison yard), so that the prisoners go out for examination handcuffed.
The association stated that the prisoners will start implementing their steps today, Tuesday, in Nafha prison (south), provided that the circle of implementing the steps will expand in the rest of the prisons, according to the plan approved by the Supreme Emergency Committee for Prisoners.
Yesterday, Monday, the Supreme Emergency Committee for Prisoners, which represents prisoners of all Palestinian factions, announced, in a statement distributed by the association, the decision to initiate a disobedience, to end with announcing a hunger strike on the first of next Ramadan, in late March.
According to the media coordinator of the Prisoners' Club, Amani Saraneh, the number of prisoners in Nafha prison is 600, including 360 in 3 new sections designed to clamp down on prisoners, and targeted by the new procedures announced by the occupation prison administration.
According to a separate statement by the Prisoners' Club, the Israeli army arrested 25 Palestinians between Monday evening and Tuesday morning from various West Bank governorates.
Until the end of last January, the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons reached about 4,780, including 29 female prisoners and about 160 minors (under the age of 18), according to institutions specialized in prisoner affairs.