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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Zena Al Tahhan

Palestinian prisoners protest Israeli ‘collective punishment’

Palestinian protesters hold up Palestinian flags and spoons, reportedly the digging tool used by six Palestinian prisoners who broke out of Israel's Gilboa Prison in September 2021, to denounce punitive measures taken by the Israel Prison Service against Palestinian prisoners following the jailbreak [Jack Guez/AFP]

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention have taken a series of actions against recent restrictions imposed on them by authorities, prisoner rights groups said, adding that Israeli measures amounted to collective punishment.

All prisoners are refusing to step out of their cells for their allocated yard time since Israeli prison authorities on February 5 decreased the time and number of prisoners allowed outside at once, in violation of previous agreements between detainees and the jail administration, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) monitoring group said in a statement on Thursday.

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