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Some 1,000 Hamas prisoners warn they’ll launch hunger strike over conditions
2023-08-20
[IsraelTimes] Prisoner representatives have raged against transfers of inmates and other limitations; Minister Ben Gvir’s visit to Ofer Prison also seen as provocative

Some 1,000 Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, prisoners held in Israeli jails threatened Thursday to launch a mass hunger strike, amid rising tensions between prisoners and the Israel Prison Service.
Make sure you empty out all their secret food stashes before they start, guys — the thing loses effect if they are not visibly weakened by hunger.
Prisoner representatives have raged against the transfers of various prisoners and other limitations on their living conditions. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit Wednesday to Ofer Prison near Jerusalem was also seen as provocative in the eyes of the prisoners.

Since entering office, Ben Gvir has repeatedly pressured the IPS to clamp down on Paleostinian prisoners, limiting their freedoms and "stopping the summer camp," as he said Wednesday.

Paleostinian media said Thursday that Hamas had conducted several test launches of long-range rockets toward the sea in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, saying this was a message to Jerusalem over prisoners’ conditions. The terror group regularly conducts such tests.

Hamas front man Abdel-Latif al-Qanou said Thursday that the group was "carefully following the situation" while blaming the "extremist settler government for the consequences and results of the aggression against the prisoners."

He warned that "their battle will not take place [only] inside the prisons, as our people are with them and behind them."

Among his hardline political positions, Ben Gvir has often spoken out against providing Paleostinians convicted of terror-related offenses with comfortable conditions. He has also said he will propose legislation to allow for the death penalty
for certain terror offenses.

Earlier this year he sought to crack down on shower times and instructed the removal of ovens used to bake pitas. The latter earned him the derisive nickname of "the pita minister" by members of the opposition, who contended he was focusing on public relations rather than substantive policies.
Related:
Ofer Prison: 2019-03-31 Terrorists Riot And Coordinate Terror From Within Israeli Prisons- Report
Ofer Prison: 2018-11-30 Palestinian youth caught smuggling phones to security prisoners
Ofer Prison: 2017-04-20 Barbecue in front of prison
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  When they quit seething and whining
Posted by: Frank G   2023-08-20 13:33  

#5  Since shower time was reduced, and these folks are most likely pretty ripe already, how will Israel Prison Service know when it's time to bag up the remains?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-08-20 13:09  

#4  Sounds good to me.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-08-20 11:13  

#3  "your proposal is acceptable. See you next month"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-08-20 10:55  

#2  Stamping their tiny, curly toed slippers.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-20 03:46  

#1  Don't they know that there are kids starving in China?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-08-20 00:14  

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