The Supreme Emergency Committee of the Palestinian National Prisoners Movement decided today, Sunday, to begin an open hunger strike on Thursday the 14th of this month, to demand the cessation of all decisions and policies taken to tighten their conditions and lives, and to "restore all that has been taken away from their rights during the past period."

The committee stated in a press conference in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City that it will make the current month of September "a title and a comprehensive month for the two most sacred causes: Al-Aqsa and the prisoners."

It also emphasized that "the unity embodied by the prisoners' movement over the past two years has been the guarantee in repelling the aggression against the prisoners, which we seek to strengthen more and more day by day, and we hope it will extend to all arenas of Palestinian action, and we expect it to be manifested in the support of our people for us in this battle."

The Emergency Committee stressed that the rights that the prisoners live under have been seized with their blood and their strikes, pointing out that they did not obtain them "as a favor or grace or commitment to international charters and laws; thus, they are not subject to negotiation or concession."

Meanwhile, the management of Israeli occupation prisons began this morning, Sunday, to transfer 120 prisoners, from those with high sentences and leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, from "Nafha" prison to a collective isolation section set up specifically for prisoners they classify as (security threats) in "Ofer" prison.

The Palestinian Authority for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club clarified in a joint statement that this transfer comes as part of the "ongoing aggression against the prisoners, and an attempt by the prison administration to undermine the organizational structures, as well as to strike any state of stability that the prisoner tries to create."

According to the statement, this transfer targeted the same prisoners who were moved earlier this year from "Hadarim" prison to "Nafha" prison.

The Authority and the Club pointed out that mass transfers are also part of a systematic policy pursued by the prison administration, specifically in light of the unified confrontation that the prisoners are trying to establish, to repel the aggression that the government of occupation, led by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, is pursuing. This transfer comes shortly after Ben Gvir's visit to the "Negev" and "Ofer" prisons, according to the joint statement.

It should be noted that Ofer prison is the only prison established on the occupied territories since 1967, and for the first time since the signing of the Oslo Agreement, it holds prisoners with high sentences and life sentences, as well as leaders of the prisoners’ movement.

The joint statement from the Prisoners Authority and the Prisoners Club stated that the Israeli occupation government "knows that harming the prisoners in Israeli prisons will lead to an explosion of the state of confrontation in the prisons and its escalation," calling for the broadest popular and official alignment and not leaving the prisoners alone in this battle.

The Authority for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club affirmed that the prisoners are prepared to resume their ongoing battle to confront the measures of the extremist Ben Gvir.

This decision against the prisoners also comes after Ben Gvir announced last Friday that he would take measures against the prisoners, including limiting family visits for prisoners to once every two months instead of once a month, which the prisoners considered "playing with fire that will burn those who ignited it," according to the statement of the Supreme Emergency Committee.