After Ben Gvir’s disputable decision to limit Palestinian prisoners’ family visits, the Israeli prison service decided Sunday morning to move 120 high-sentence prisoners to collective isolation.
Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that 120 Palestinian prisoners who are handed high sentences will be transferred from Israel’s Nafha prison to a harsher collective isolation section, where only “security dangerous” prisoners are incarcerated.
Israel’s collective isolation policy drags only prison leaders away from normal cells, subjecting them to successive night riads and naked searches. The isolated prisoners are deprived of a good amount of water as well as food and usually undergo a limited sleeping schedule.
“These arbitrary measures are only striking the stability state the Palestinian prisoners have been trying to preserve in the context of fending off the ongoing abuses and repressions by Israeli prison service against them on a daily basis,” Prisoners’ Club added.
This collective transfer comes shortly after the surprising and disputable decision of Israel’s ‘Minister of Chaos’ Itamar Ben Gvir who ordered Friday, without coordination with the security authorities, to limit the Palestinian prisoners’ family visits.
Under Ben Gvir’s decision, 1600 prisoners will no longer see their families as usual, forcing children and longing mothers and wives to wait many more months to join a 5-minute visit to their incarcerated relatives.
Although Ben Gvir’s decision has sparked internal conflict within the Israeli system, the newly adopted decision will heat up the prison’s atmosphere and ignite many more rebellious acts by the Palestinian prisoners, including a mass hunger Strike.
Early morning on Sunday, the Palestinian prisoners’ movement stated that some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners decided to begin a mass hunger strike in response to Ben Gvir’s reduction of family visits.
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