RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Gaza - 17 March 2023. Palestinian runners take part in a marathon to denounce the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army in West Bank and to support prisoners in Israeli jails, in Gaza City.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Mahmoud Abu Sbeitan, winner of the first place in the marathon.
0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Zaki Dababesh, coordinator of the Prisoners' Committee for National and Islamic Forces.
0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Undersecretary of the Ministry of Prisoners, Bahaa Al-Madhoun

STORYLINE:

Thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons continue their civil disobedience measures against the political initiated by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Civil disobedience by the prisoners includes the closing of the different prison sections, stopping aspects of daily life, the wearing of a mandatory brown jail uniform and refusing to undergo the so-called daily security check-up.

The civil disobedience measures will escalate to an open-ended hunger strike beginning on the first day of the upcoming fasting month of Ramadan, unless the Israeli Prison Service goes back on the recent repression measures, according to the Detainees Affairs Commission.

Footage by / APAwire