The prisoners will begin the strike on Wednesday to condemn “an escalating series of punitive measures by the Israel Prison Service (IPS),” the group said in a statement, Xinhua reported.
Those measures affected “everything from prisoners’ access to education, books and family visits, to the IPS’s use of isolation and fines as punishment,” the statement read.
The hunger strike will be staged every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from this week, with other forms of disobedience, including refusal to wear prison uniforms or cooperate with any other IPS demands.
Currently, there are some 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The rights group also urged the Palestinian Authority not to return to negotiations with Israel before all Palestinian and Arab political prisoners held in Israeli custody are released.
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