President Mahmoud Abbas instructed all competent authorities, institutions, and governmental and national bodies to approve grants for a doctoral program specifically for prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.

President Abbas’s directive came after his response to the message of the Supreme National Committee for the Prisoner Movement, which represents all the national and Islamic factions in the occupation prisons, for this program to be the first of its kind for prisoners inside prisons, thus forming a lever for the prisoner movement in its ongoing struggle against the prison guard, and within the framework of the cognitive battle that It was imposed by prisoners over many decades.

The President gave instructions to all competent authorities to facilitate procedures that enable prisoners to enroll in programs approved for doctoral degrees through Palestinian universities, according to standards that are appropriate to their conditions inside prisons and meet their needs (through distance education).

In a letter sent by the National Committee to President Abbas, it expressed its thanks and appreciation for the great role that the President gives to the prisoners in supporting and assisting them, in their confrontation and ongoing battle against the prison guard and his procedures.

She stressed that this step represents a new window of hope for the prisoners, to achieve their ambitions and their educational journey, as the education process constituted an essential front in confronting the occupation and its plans aimed at undermining the awareness of the Palestinian people.