[Ppnews] Prisoners reject Israeli intelligence offer of modified isolation

[Political Prisoner News]

Prisoners reject Israeli intelligence offer of modified isolation

http://samidoun.ca/2012/04/prisoners-reject-israeli-intelligence-offer-of-modified-isolation/

NEGEV, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners refused to 
end their hunger strike in return for an Israeli 
intelligence offer to end the isolation of about 
20 Palestinian prisoners by grouping them in one ward.

Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for 
prisoners’ studies and human rights, said on 
Sunday that the offer, tabled by an intelligence 
director in one of the prisons, also stipulated 
that those prisoners should not have any contact 
with activities outside the prison walls and 
should refrain from making statements.

He added that the prisoners told the intelligence 
director that the offer was not accepted since 
isolation of prisoners was in violation of the 
international law and that they would not accept 
compromises but rather want all their demands met 
and that isolated prisoners should return to 
ordinary wards without any condition attached.

Khafsh noted that 50 new prisoners joined the 
hunger strike in Megiddo jail on Sunday while 120 
others joined the strike in Ofer jail.

He said that the number of hunger strikers in all 
jails has now reached more than 3000 and the 
number is expected to increase within the few coming days.

For his part, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, a researcher 
specialized in prisoners’ affairs, said that the 
Israeli occupation and the Israeli prison service 
were afraid that all prisoners would eventually 
join the strike especially when Fatah prisoners, 
who have not so far joined the strike, announced 
that they would join it on 1st May.

He said that the IPS fears that it would no 
longer be able to control the prisons and that it 
would in the end accept the prisoners’ demands.

Ashqar noted that the health condition of many 
prisoners deteriorated after 13 days of hunger 
strike and were carried to hospitals, adding that 
the prisoners were adamant on carrying on with 
the strike despite the IPS quelling measures 
against them. He called for greater solidarity 
with the prisoners and not to let them alone in face of the IPS cruel measures.



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