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Prison Strike Ignites
Intifada's Return
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INA FRIEDMAN SRAEL CORRESPONDENT
R
eports of the hunger
strike by Palestinian
security prisoners
began as a routine item
buried deep in the Israeli
papers three weeks back. The
fact is that the tribulations of
Palestinians languishing
behind bars for activities
regarded as hostile to the
Israeli stage are never high
on the average Israeli's list of
concerns.
Besides, the timing of the
strike — beginning as it did
on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
— could not have been less
promising for getting the
country's attention. That
situation was further ag-
gravated by a stroke of
abominable luck when an El
Al cargo Jumbo crashed into
a high-rise apartment
building in Amsterdam — a
harrowing disaster that
preoccupied the Israeli
media for over a week.
Thus, by the end of the se-
cond week of the hunger
strike, when the occupied
territories seemed suddenly
to erupt in demonstrations
and riots, the likes of which
had not been seen since the
early days of the intifada,
the initial reaction in Israel
was puzzlement.
Over the past few months,
one article after the next had
clearly laid the uprising to
rest. Not only was there a
marked decline in the in-
cidence of popular violence
in the territories, observers
also reported a return to a
more upbeat mood, with Pa-
lestinians holding large
wedding celebrations, fre-
quenting restaurants, and
generally abandoning the
stance of grim stoicism that
had been one of the
hallmarks of the uprising.
Israel responded by an-
nouncing a cutback in the
number of troops allocated to
the territories and, as a fur-
ther gesture, released some
800 prisoners (relative low-
grade intifada offenders)
from detention camps. The
tacit understanding, it
seemed, was that the con-
frontation between the two
peoples had moved from the
overheated atmosphere of
the refugee camps to the
rarefied one of the U.S. State
Department and that diplo-
mats were picking up where
angry young men had left
off.
And then, suddenly, the
whole angry cycle started
again, leaving the experts
scrambling for explanations.
The most likely reason is
probably the most obvious
one. The issue of the security ]
prisoners — who are theh
pride of the Palestinian I
community —is a particular-
ly sore one that affects prac-
tically every household in -
the occupied territories.
Some 80,000 Palestinians
have spent time in Israelis
prisons and detention camps
since the start of the in-
tifada. Even today, with the
uprising at a lull, about
12,000 "politicals" are serv-
ing sentences of one sort or
another: 7,000 in IDF deten-
tion camps (the most famous
being Ketziot in the Negev);
5,000 in the security wings
of the Israeli prison system.
It is the latter — the more
"hardened" of the security
prisoners, some of them ser-
ving sentences for murder —
who on Sept. 27 went on a.
Palestinians
claimed their
grievances were
humanitarian in
nature.
hunger strike for better con-
ditions. Among their corn-
plaints were severe over-
crowding, poor medical care,
and the humiliating treat-
ment of their families during
visits. They also demanded
more freedom of movement
within their facilities and
the release of a number of
their comrades.
The initial response of the
Prison Service was not par-
ticularly accommodating,
and there's a history to the
reason why. Last year the
former head of Israel's '7-
Prison Service came under
stinging criticism, in a
report by the Police Comp- j
troller, for making far-
reaching concessions to the
Palestinian security
prisoners as his way of
"buying quiet at almost any
price."
The report implied that in
the play of forces between
prisoners and their jailers, it
was the Palestinians who
had the upper hand. Follow-
ing these findings, prisoners'