The decision comes after recent raids on sections three, four and 26 of Naqab prison, the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported in a joint statement.

According to the text, 75 prisoners who were recently forcibly transferred from that facility to Nafha prison will join the strike.

The Times of Israel put at one thousand the number of prisoners who will begin the campaign, all of them militants of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The prisoners were angered by the inmates transfers and other restrictions, as well as by the visit of the Israeli Minister of National Security, the ultra-right-wing Itamar Ben Gvir, to the Ofer prison, which was considered a provocation, the newspaper stressed.

Since taking office late last year, Ben Gvir has been pressuring the IPS to clamp down on Palestinian inmates, it noted.

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