Nearly 1,400 Palestinian prisoners are preparing to go on hunger strike to denounce the deterioration of their conditions of detention in Israel after the recent escape of detainees, the Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday.
Israeli prisons, which have more than 4,000 Palestinian detainees, experienced a bout of tension last week after the escape, on September 6, of six Palestinians, members of armed groups, from the high security prison in Gilboa (north). via a tunnel. Four of the fugitives have since been captured.
Several hundred people from that prison were taken to other penal establishments, a transfer during which searches were carried out and personal items confiscated, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club. Fires had been started by inmates in some prisons.
“The situation inside the prisons is very bad, which prompted the prisoners to want to go on a hunger strike,” Qadri Abou Bakr, chairman of the Prisoners Commission, body of the prison, told AFP. ‘Palestinian Authority.
He said 1,380 detainees would go on strike from Friday, and then others would join the movement next week.
According to the commission in charge of prisoners, negotiations are being held between the Israeli prison administration and representatives of the prisoners, without success for the moment.
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that visits to prisoners would again be possible from September 19, after being canceled last week.
Four of the six Palestinian fugitives, imprisoned for their responsibility in anti-Israel attacks, were captured at the end of last week in the north of Israel.
Mr. Abu Bakr expressed concern about their fate on Tuesday, saying that neither their lawyers nor the Red Cross were allowed to visit them.
Khaled Mahjana, a Palestinian lawyer, told AFP he was to meet two of the four detainees on Tuesday evening, Yaqoub Qadri and Mohammad Ardah.
Mr. Abu Bakr was also alarmed on Tuesday at the state of health of another fugitive who had been captured, Zakaria al-Zoubeidi, a former head of the armed wing of the Fatah party, after information shared on the networks. social workers reported hospitalization.
On Monday, prison authorities denied that he had been transferred to a hospital.
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