WEST BANK (Dispatches) –
Palestinian prisoners inside the Zionist regime’s jails have announced that they are preparing for a strike across all prisons, reiterating that action will continue until all prisoners’ rights are regaining, a statement has revealed.
The prisoners’ statement, which was sent to mass media on Friday, confirmed that Palestinian factions inside prisons would together declare the start of a hunger strike expected to start soon. They pledged to continue their action until they achieve all their basic rights.
According to the statement, the prisoners shared that the occupying regime introduced many new orders restricting their rights as political prisoners.
The statement hailed the persistence and resilience of the prisoners, who have had restrictions and sanctions imposed on them following the escape of six prisoners from the highly secured Nafha Prison in September 2021.
Palestinian prisoners held without trial or charge in Zionist jails have passed over 70 days of a boycott of the regime’s military courts.
About 500 of the detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings, rights advocates say, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The boycott movement started in early January. It includes initial hearings to uphold the administrative detention order, as well as appeal hearings and later sessions at the regime’s ‘supreme court.’
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are held under the so-called administrative detention, in which the occupying regime keeps the detainees without charge for up to six months, a period which can be extended an infinite number of times. The detention takes place on orders from a military commander and on the basis of what the regime describes as ‘secret’ evidence. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.
Rights groups say the regime’s use of administrative detention is a “bankrupt tactic.”