The active institutions in the affairs of prisoners announced today, Thursday, that the administrative prisoners will study, during the coming hours, some of the responses they received from the Israeli prison administration regarding their demands. However, their current decision is to start an open hunger strike, starting next Sunday.

This came during a press conference held by the prisoners’ institutions and the national and Islamic forces in Ramallah, in the presence of Wasel Abu Youssef, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, Qaddoura Fares, the head of the Prisoners’ Club, and the head of the Higher Authority for the Follow-up of Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, Amin. Showman.

Abu Bakr said, "We await, during the next few hours, the decisive decision from the administrative prisoners regarding their open-ended hunger strike, which is scheduled for the eighteenth of this month."

He pointed out that the administrative prisoners demand that the administrative detention not be extended more than once or twice, in light of the fact that the Israeli military judiciary extends this detention several times in a row, as some prisoners have extended their administrative detention to 18 times in a row.

Abu Bakr added that the number of administrative prisoners is 1,083, which has doubled from what it was two years ago, indicating that the occupation courts issue daily rulings of administrative detention.

He pointed out that the so-called Israeli cabinet, the Cabinet, raised the issue of giving the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, the power to issue administrative detention orders, which are restricted to military officers, which threatens to greatly multiply the number if this proposition is implemented. .

Abu Bakr explained that the meeting held by representatives of administrative and convict prisoners with the occupation prison administration yesterday raised several issues, including the issue of administrative detention, the sick and the elderly, and the prisoner Walid Daqqa. Age and female prisoners, and the ban on making phone calls to the prisoner Daqqa with his family was lifted.

In turn, Fares said that the rapid rise in administrative detention is an indication that after a year the number of administrative prisoners will be equal to the number of convicted prisoners, and this is unprecedented in history.

He pointed out that in light of the extremist Israeli government, and the state of anxiety that the occupying state is experiencing from an explosion of conditions in all parts of Palestine, it is taking proactive measures to legitimize the policy of administrative detention, which is rejected by all international norms.

Fares continued: "The prisoners found that this measure must be addressed by going on a hunger strike, and they want to send a message that if the occupation authorities want to break the weapon of the open strike by killing the martyr Khader Adnan, this weapon the prisoners will continue to resort to in order to defend their rights." their dignity and themselves.

And he added, "With regard to the administrative prisoners, some understandings took place during the past hours regarding the Ramla prison hospital, and a session will be held tomorrow in order to defuse the tension that began in the prisons, in light of the fact that the sick prisoners wanted to go on an open hunger strike, but the emergency committee The Supreme Court intervened and opened a dialogue and formed a state of pressure, and this resulted in allowing sick prisoners to make phone calls to their families so far.

With regard to the prisoner Walid Daqqa, Fares pointed out that the request for his early release will be considered next Sunday, which will be considered by what is known as the “life imprisonment committee”, which usually rejects the request, especially since there has been a remedial amendment in the occupation law that prohibits the prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment From his release if his health condition reached the point of danger, however, there are efforts made by Egypt and Jordan to release Daqqa.

For his part, Abu Youssef said, "In the event that the administrative prisoners go on an open hunger strike, support activities will be organized in all regions to support them and show solidarity with them and their rights, and their file will be activated before international institutions, especially the International Criminal Court, which is reluctant to move the files submitted to it." regarding the Palestinian issue.

He called for broad popular participation in order to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to stop the crime of administrative detention, and to reject the occupation's policies that attempt to blackmail prisoners and their families with its racist decisions and laws.

For his part, Shoman stressed the need to move on various legal and diplomatic levels for the issue of prisoners, in light of this extremist government that practices all kinds of oppression and abuse against our people, especially the prisoners.

He stressed the importance of our people shouldering their responsibility in supporting the captive movement, by standing by their just cause.

The number of administrative detainees is 1,083, including three female prisoners and 19 children, out of a total of about 5,000 prisoners held in 23 prisons and detention and investigation centers.