Nearly 1,400 Palestinian prisoners are preparing to go on a hunger strike to denounce the deterioration of their conditions of detention in Israel after the escape of detainees last week, some of whom have since been captured, said Tuesday (September 14th). Palestinian Authority.
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Israeli prisons, which have more than 4,000 Palestinian detainees, experienced a bout of tension last week after the escape of six Palestinians, members of armed groups, from the high security prison in Gilboa (north) via a tunnel dug under sink. Tensions began after the transfer of several hundred people from the prison 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.
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The situation inside the prisons is very bad, which prompted the prisoners to go on a hunger strike,
" Qadri Abou Bakr, chairman of the Prisoners Commission, an organ of the prison, told AFP. Palestinian Authority, specifying that 1,380 detainees would go on strike from Friday, then others would join the movement next week.
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that after an Israeli decision, visits to prisoners would be possible again 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. Qadri Abou Bakr worried about their fate on Tuesday, saying that neither their lawyers nor the Red Cross were allowed to visit them.