Palestinian prisoners' civil disobedience continues

For the sixth consecutive day, thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli Occupation prisons are continuing their civil disobedience measures, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

These measures are a form of protest against the ongoing Israeli Occupation's repression in prisons.

The spokesperson for the Palestinian Detainees Affairs Commission Hasan Abed Rabbo said that prisoners have decided to declare next Friday as a "day of rage" against the repression.

On Feb. 14, the Supreme Emergency Committee for Palestinian Prisoners Affairs explained that this came in response to an ongoing repression campaign, which went as fa as reducing the time during which Palestinian prisoners are allowed to make use of the shower area to only one hour a day.

Civil disobedience actions by the prisoners include the closing of the different prison sections, stopping aspects of daily life, refusing to wear the mandatory brown jail uniform and refusing to undergo daily security check-ups.

According to the committee, civil disobedience measures will escalate to an open-ended hunger strike beginning on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

“This strike, bearing the banner of freedom or martyrdom, is a strike that will be implemented by every capable prisoner regardless of what faction they belong to,” the committee said in a statement earlier this month.

"The amount of aggression we have been facing since the start of the year requires all of our people to support us with all means possible.”

Early in February, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli Occupation prisons issued a message to their people urging them to get ready for a significant uprising against the repression campaign by the Israeli Occupation’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Ben Gvir announced on Jan. 8 his decision to cancel a policy which allows any lawmaker in the Israeli Occupation's Knesset to visit incarcerated Palestinians in prison.

Ben-Gvir said in a statement that he is set on reinstating an older policy which allows only one MK from each party to visit “terror inmates, or so-called security prisoners,” as the Israeli Occupation's media refers to those imprisoned for carrying out resistance operations.

Since then, inmates have been and transferred them between the 20 prisons used exclusively for Palestinian political prisoners.

Approximately 140 Palestinian prisoners were transferred to Nafha in January, which is known for terrible living conditions, described as "inhumane."