Palestinian prisoners have announced that they will launch a hunger strike on September 14 in protest of the Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's decision on Friday to limit visits to families of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

Palestinians will only be allowed to visit their families once every two months instead of once a month, according to the new guidelines reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. 

The policy will come into force from Sunday, and will effect 1,600 out of 5,000 Palestinian prisoners.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Ben-Gvir made the decision without coordination with the security services, and after clashing with the Commissioner of the Prison Service Katy Perry, who warned him that such a decision to ignite Palestinian opposition on the streets.

Shortly after the announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any such step will be subject to security clearance next week. 

The Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Qadura Fares condemned the decision for violating "the basic rights of prisoners" in a way that even violates Israeli law. He added that the coming months will "prove that [Ben-Gvir] poses a threat to security and stability in the region, as well as a threat to the security of Israel itself."

Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, also slammed the "racist" policy, and warned that Ben-Gvir's approach could "explode" the situation on the ground.

The commission said that is considering its next steps in response to the decision, adding that detainees are "in a state of alert."

The Red Cross also expressed its opposition to the move and threatened to resort to international courts if the conditions of the security detainees deteriorated. 

This also comes after Ben-Gvir announced this week that he would abolish the mechanism to release Palestinian detainees in prisons due to overcrowding, which drew criticism from the chief of the Shin Bet security service.