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RAMALLAH, West Bank — About 140 Hamas members incarcerated in Israel have suspended the hunger strike they were staging to protest the Israel Prison Service's installation of potentially cancer-causing devices to jam calls from cellphones that have been smuggled in to prisoners.
The situation escalated Sept. 10, when 23 Hamas inmates in Israel’s Ramon Prison staged an open-ended hunger strike. Their numbers later increased to 140 inmates in the Ramon, Nafha, Eshel, al-Naqab, Ofer, Megiddo and Gilboa prisons, including six members of Hamas’ senior leadership committee for prisoners.
