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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'