Israel's prison service denies jails on verge of 'explosion'

The Israel Prison Service claims that escalating tensions in prisons are not related to changes in the incarceration conditions of the Palestinian prisoners, but the impending shakeup of a new Prison Service chief and the lack of a diplomatic horizon.
A Palestinian woman holds a picture of a Palestinian jailed in an Israeli prison during a protest calling for the prisoner's release outside the Ayalon prison, in the city of Ramle, near Tel Aviv May 23, 2014. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3QJ6R
A Palestinian woman holds a picture of a Palestinian jailed in an Israeli prison during a protest outside Ayalon prison, near Tel Aviv, May 23, 2014. - REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Are the security prisoner wards in Israeli jails really on the verge of an “explosion,” as Al-Monitor's Adnan Abu Amer suggested Aug. 12?

Reportedly, various Palestinian sources in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been making dire warnings that a clash between the Palestinian prisoners and their guards is just a matter of time. The sources suggest that a general hunger strike could spread at any given moment to include all the prisons and all Palestinian prisoners.

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