(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Palestinian human rights center stated that prisoners' leadership refused the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) offer to find a solution to end Abu Sisi's isolation.
Palestine prisoners’ center for studies said that a group of prisoners were supposed to launch an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday in solidarity with the isolated and hunger striking prisoner Dirar Abu Disi.
However, the prisoners suspended their hunger strike only for one day after the IPS demanded more time (a week) to end his solitary confinement, the center added.
The IPS refused to end Abu Sisi's solitary confinement as stipulated in the agreement to end the Dignity (hunger) Strike that ended solitary confinement of all Palestinian prisoners.
The IPS offered to transfer Abu Sisi to another solitary confinement with better detention conditions, but the prisoners' movement and its senior leadership rejected the offer and resorted to the hunger strike option.
Eight Palestinian prisoners launched on Monday an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with Dirar Abu Sisi to end his solitary confinement as a first stage of a mass hunger strike. The center indicated that new batches of hunger strikers from all Israeli prisons will be declared until ending Abu Sisi's solitary confinement and the escalation against him.
The center center called for more support to the prisoners' issue particularly the hunger strikers.
For its part, Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) called on Palestinian citizens and the free world to intensify solidarity campaigns with the isolated prisoner Abu Sisi.
It advocated tabling the Palestinian prisoners’ issue with the International Criminal Court and demanding prosecution of the Israeli occupation government for crimes against those prisoners especially the policy of medical neglect.
PPS director Ragheb Abu Diak said in a press statement on Sunday that the IPS and the Shin Bet are pursuing a slow execution policy against prisoners.
The PPS called on human rights organizations especially the Red Cross to intervene to save Abu Sisi, as his condition is worsening. It noted that he was suffering from heart, stomach, and kidney problems among others.
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