The prisoners' decision to strike requires expanding the circle of solidarity with them

The captive movement's decision to go on a hunger strike, starting Thursday, the fourteenth of this month, in response to the extremist and racist decision of the Israeli Minister of National Security, is a valid decision. Although it is the last weapon possessed by the captive movement in the struggle to preserve its gains, which it achieved through huge sacrifices during which many of them were martyred, and many of them were infected with chronic diseases, they were able to achieve achievements on several levels. The most important of which is the continuation of university studies, the submission of the Tawjihi, the introduction of cultural and scientific books and many others, both in terms of improving the conditions of life inside prisons, although this improvement does not meet the minimum internationally recognized conditions that the occupying state ignores.

We say that the decision to go on a hunger strike is correct and appropriate, despite its danger to the health of the prisoners if it is implemented and the intransigence of the racist Minister of National Security Ben Gvir. Because any success achieved by this racist minister's decision will be a prelude to other decisions against the captive movement, which is living in difficult conditions as a result of the various measures he has taken since he became the decision regarding the prisons in which the prisoners of freedom are held.

It is true that the prisoners of freedom thwarted last February the decisions and measures taken by Ben Gvir against them and their families. However, this extremist comes out from time to time with measures and decisions against the prisoners. He even proposed the execution of many of them under various allegations. This led the captive movement to take its decision to go on hunger strike in response to his decision to reduce visits to prisoners from one month to two months in an attempt to break the will of the captive movement, but it will fail in that as it failed last February.

What is happening inside Israel of opposition to this decision, whether by the prisons authority or by Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, but that does not mean that the Israeli opposition circles are not with the decision. Rather, it opposes it in terms of timing, but everyone is against the captive movement, and against giving any facilities as stipulated in international laws and norms. Rather, everyone's goal is to try to undermine the steadfastness of the prisoners, who, through their unity and steadfastness, have achieved achievements that Ben Ghafir and others are trying to attack. However, he did not succeed in the face of the captive movement's insistence on continuing the struggle in order to preserve what it has achieved and what it will achieve later, despite the nose of Ben Ghafir and others.

Hence, despite the opposition in Israel to the decision of this extremist and racist minister, Ben Gvir instructed the prison authorities and the police to start implementing the decision as of yesterday. As well as his previous decision to stop the release of prisoners before the end of their sentences, which is implemented by prison administrations, due to overcrowding in prisons, which includes light sentences, and some of them were released only two or three months ago.

In front of that, the Palestinian side represented by the authority, factions, forces, human rights organizations and prisoners, as well as the masses of our people, must work towards the broadest measures of solidarity with the captive movement that sacrificed its freedom for the freedom of its people, and not leave them to wage the struggle against the extremist and racist Ben Gvir alone.

The support of the prisoners and their support by everyone, along with their struggle, will fail the measures taken by Ben Gvir and other Israeli ministers and extremists and the administrations of the occupation prisons.