are preparing for a mass hunger strike if their demands are not met by the Israeli jails authority, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club told °®Âþµº on Wednesday.
In March, Palestinian prisoners suspended a planned hunger strike after Israeli authorities agreed to their demands. Yet earlier in August, the prisoners announced in a statement, made public by the Prisoners' Club, that Israeli authorities had broken the agreement.
"Israeli authorities had introduced a series of punitive measures against the prisoners , which included the constant transfer of prisoners between prison facilities and repeated solitary confinement," Amani Sarahneh, spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners' Club told °®Âþµº.
"The hunger strike and Israelà authorities agreed," said Sarahneh.
"Recently, the Israeli authorities decided to resume some of those measures, especially the constant transfer between jails for prisoners with high sentences," she pointed out.
"Prisoners have started a series of protest actions on Monday, ," she added.
"The prisoners decide to go into a full-scale mass hunger strike in September in case Israeli authorities don't backtrack on their decision."
On Monday, the Palestinian prisoners' leadership body , beginning next Friday.
On Tuesday, the main Palestinian prisoners' support organizations, including the Prisoners' Club and the High Commission for Prisoners' Affairs, said in a press conference in Ramallah that they have prepared support activities across the Palestinian territories to be announced soon, and called on all Palestinians to take part.
Human rights groups estimate that , including a third of the male population in the occupied territories, which makes the prisoners issue , impacting all sectors of the Palestinian society.
Among the main Palestinian concerns related to prisoners in Israeli jails is the question of ill prisoners, accounting for around 600, who by Israel.
The most significant case is that of 49-year-old Abdel Baset Muutan, who suffers from colon cancer.
In addition, the ", remains .
Last week, Palestinian administrative detainee in protest against his detention without charges, after Israeli authorities agreed to freeze his detention order, allowing him to receive visits in a civil hospital.
Currently, around, including 27 women, 175 children and 670 administrative detainees without charges, according to .