The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, revealed that the prisoners in Israeli prisons decided to postpone the Sunday strike, until the first of next July.

Abu Bakr said, in a statement distributed by the Commission, that a session brought together the prisoners with the Prisons Administration and the Israeli intelligence, and they presented their demands, which are to stop the administrative detention, and to prevent the detainees from being extended more than once or twice.

Abu Bakr explained that "the administrative detainees in the occupation prisons have reached more than 1,000 prisoners and detainees at the present time, noting that this number did not exceed 500 a year ago from now, which confirms the targeting and extremism of the new Israeli government, and its intentional increase in the number of Palestinian detainees."

Abu Bakr confirmed that many of the administratively sentenced prisoners are automatically renewed, and some of them have been in detention centers for 7 or 8 years, in addition to the re-arrest of those released after a week or two of their release by the occupation.

Abu Bakr indicated that the demands also included a review of administrative prisoners, including children and the elderly, to which the prison administration was somewhat responsive during the last session, prompting the prisoners to suspend their hunger strike, which was scheduled for today.

The postponement, according to Abu Bakr, comes in order to provide an opportunity to present their demands to Israeli officials and decide on them.

Regarding the possibility of the Israeli government responding to them in light of its recent measures against the prisoners, he said that the deadline is not long, and everyone seeks to avoid the hunger strike option, including the prisoners themselves, but if they are forced to do so, there is no other option.