Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons announce general alarm against Israeli repression
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Palestinian prisoners’ movement has announced on Sunday the state of general alarm, in protest against repressive measures taken by Israel Prison Service (IPS) against the detainees.
The prisoners’ movement stated today that Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons from across the political spectrum announced the state of general alarm, according to the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.
The prisoners’ movement said it has also decided to dissolve all the regulatory bodies of all factions in all prisons from tomorrow, Monday.
The Palestinian prisoners at Israel’s Rimon and Nafha prisons have also decided to lock down all of the sections of the two prisons in protest of the IPS’s decision to reduce the daily break-time.
The Commission noted that such a move has been taken in protest against the punitive and repressive measures taken by the Israeli prisons’ administration as it has stepped back on the demands reached with the detainees last year, following Gilbou’s prison break.
Last year, the Israeli special units and prison administration cracked down on several prisons for over five 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.
Thus, all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons 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 also set fire in the sections of the prisons, as a part of their protest against the Israeli laws.
The occupation authorities canceled the family visits for the Palestinian prisoners in its jails until the end of September.
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, and they were re-arrested later after over a week of large-scale sweep operations throughout occupied Palestine using high-tech systems.
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 IPS following the Gilbou’s prison break.
That time, the detainees demanded the Israeli prisons’ administration to end its policy of repression, abuse, and arbitrary transfers, end the repressive measures imposed on the detainees, release isolated prisoners to regular sections, return detention conditions to what they were before September 6, and to end the policy of arbitrary administrative detention and stop the renewal policy for administrative detainees, among other demands.
