The national committee representing Palestinian freedom fighters incarcerated in Israel last night decided to suspend an open hunger strike that was supposed to start today after the Israeli occupation authorities backed down from the decision to reduce family visits to the prisons.
‘After all the repressive components of the occupation authorities – most notably the Prison Services and those behind it – retracted the decisions against the prisoners to reduce the visits of the families to their sons in the prisons; the committee, and after consultations, decided to suspend the open hunger strike which was scheduled to begin on Thursday, September 14,’ said the committee in a statement.
It, however, stressed that it is ready to resume these protest steps if the Israeli authorities decide in the future to go along with the repressive measures demanded by the fascist and racist Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir against the freedom fighters.
The Israel government decided to postpone applying Ben Gvir’s repressive measures, including reducing family visits to once every two months instead of the current once a month, until after the end of the Jewish holidays, which start this week and end by the middle of next month, in fear that measures against the more than 5000 freedom fighters held in Israel could inflame the entire prisons and the occupied territories and lead to violence everywhere.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency