WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The High National Emergency Committee for Palestinian Prisoners has declared that Friday will be a “day of anger” across all Zionist regime prisons to face the war waged against detainees by Zionist far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
In a statement, the committee stressed that its struggle against the Zionist aggression on the prisoners “will not stop before the achievement of their freedom.”
“The gradual struggle, which started with a revolt, will go through an open-ended hunger strike by the start of the holy month of Ramadan,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the committee called for the Palestinians everywhere to act in support of prisoners and Palestinians in Al-Quds “who have been subject to strict Israeli measures and racist practices.”
According to the statement, the reason for their action is the repeated aggression of the occupying regime’s prison service (IPS) on the prisoners and placing them under tight measures introduced by Ben-Gvir.
Monday was the eighth day of the collective “revolt” against the IPS.
There are reportedly more than 7,000 Palestinians held in the regime’s jails. Hundreds of the inmates have been apparently incarcerated under the practice of the so-called administrative detention.
Human rights organizations say the regime violates all the rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention. They say ‘administrative detention’ violates their right to due process since the evidence is withheld from prisoners while they are held for lengthy periods without being charged, tried, or convicted.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their detention. The Zionist regime’s jail authorities keep Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.