Palestinian prisoners in Jalbo threaten hunger strike

[ 28/07/2010 - 04:04 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jail of Jalbo have threatened to go on hunger strike in the event the prison administration continued to impose penal measures against them. The Palestinian prisoners' society said in a statement on Wednesday that the penalties included a two-month ban on purchasing from the internal and external canteens, confiscating electric appliances while only allowing two fans out of eight for each ward, and a ban on exercise. The prisoners are also deprived of visits by children less than eight years old, barred from sending messages to their relatives for the next couple of months, and they are subjected to daily, provocative search campaigns, the society said, adding that the punishment is imposed because the administration claims the prisoners were hiding cell phones. The prisoners said they sent protest messages to concerned parties in the Israeli prisons authority but with no answers so far, adding that in the event such practice continued they would go on hunger strike. The society also said that Palestinian prisoners in Shatta jail are boycotting the prison doctor because of his ill-treatment and because he does not give them suitable medication for their conditions.