Jerusalem: Israel is now trying new tactics in order to end Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike. The prisoners are now barred to visit their families and have been deprived of their belongings, RT reported.
“Privileges such as family visits have been revoked and items such as electronics have been confiscated,” Sivan Weizman, a spokesperson for the Israeli Prisons Authority said Monday as quoted by Reuters.
“All the prisoners’ belongings were confiscated except their towels and their shoes,” said Amani Sarahna of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, an advocacy group for Palestinians jailed in Israel. She informed that the miserable prisoners had been even deprived of salt.
The measures taken by Israel are aimed at the 1,200 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike to protest against extended detention without trial and to demand better prison conditions.
Last Tuesday 3,500 Palestinian prisoners out of a total of 4,699 currently detained in Israel went on a collective hunger strike. Over a thousand have been on strike ever since.
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