Hamas: We will not rest until Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are free

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Ismail Radwan, an official in the Islamic Resistance movement of Hamas, said on Friday that Palestinians will not rest until all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are free.

On Thursday, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian factions called for a “day of rage” on Friday, as Israeli crackdown and repression on the prisoners have been rising.

“We will defend you no matter the cost,” the Hamas official added.

Israeli special units and prison administration cracked down on several prisons for four days in a row, including Ketziot’s Section 6 in the Negev and Ramon Prison, in an attempt to disperse some 400 Palestinian prisoners from the Islamic Jihad in a number of other jails.

In response, all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails announced general alarm and insurgency against Israeli laws, in response to the Israeli repression and punitive measures.

The Palestinian prisoners in the Negev and Ramon prisons set fire in the sections of the prisons, as a part of their protest against the Israeli laws.

The occupation authorities has also canceled the family visits for the Palestinian prisoners in its jails until the end of September, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Such tensions came after the heroic act of six Palestinian prisoners who managed to free themselves on September 6 2021, from Gilbou prison, a high-security Israeli prison, through a secret tunnel they had reportedly dug beneath the prison.

Gilbou’s six breakers were identified as belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement, except one who is a former commander of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Thus, the planned relocation of the prisoners belonging to the Islamic Jihad was part of a set of punitive and repressive measures taken by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) following the Gilbou’s prison break.

“The Palestinian resistance is willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the prisoners,” the Hamas movement said.

“The enemy will know that the Palestinian people will never leave its detainees and that what it has committed of terror against our detainees will be reversed against it,” the Islamic Jihad movement also said.