APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 19 February 2023. Palestinians attend a press conference to support prisoners in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 19 February 2023. Palestinians attend a press conference to support prisoners in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ibrahim Melhem, spokesman for the Palestinian government. 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Qaddoura Fares, President of the Palestinian Prisoners Club. STORYLINE: For the sixth day in a row, thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons continue their civil disobedience measures against the repression campaign initiated by ultranationalist Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. Hasan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for the Palestinian Detainees Affairs Commission, said the prisoners have decided to declare next Friday as a day of rage against Israeli repression. On February 14, the Supreme Emergency Committee for Palestinian Prisoners Affairs announced the beginning of civil disobedience in response to an ongoing repression campaign by the Israeli prison authorities, including reducing the hours Palestinian prisoners can use the shower area to only one hour a day. Civil disobedience actions by the prisoners include the closing of the different prison sections, stopping aspects of daily life, the wearing of a mandatory brown jail uniform and refusing to undergo the so-called daily security check-up.ـــ According to the committee, the civil disobedience measures will escalate to an open-ended hunger strike beginning on the first day of the upcoming fasting month of Ramadan. Footage by /APA
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