RAMALLAH, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 (WAFA) – About 100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been on hunger strike for several days to protest the installation of jamming devices in the prison, which they fear causes cancer, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission said today.

It said in a statement that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) moved hunger-striking prisoners from prisons such as Rimon and others to the Nafha prison in the south of the country.

It said that the IPS is taking measures to pressure the prisoners to end their strike, including ransacking their cells and assaulting them.

The prisoners, who demand removal of the jamming devices and installation of regular public phones in the prisons as agreed in April, went on hunger strike after negotiations with IPS have failed.

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