Security prisoners are threatening a hunger strike beginning at the end of Ramadan, Channel 2 reports.
Ramadan this year begins in a week, on June 18 and ends on July 16.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is considering pushing legislation that would allow prison guards to force-feed, the station reports.
According to the report, the law would not be uniquely implemented on Palestinian security prisoners but on all prisoners conducting hunger strike.
The state would not take sanctions against physicians refusing to implement the force-feeding process, Channel 2 reports.
“Just as prison guards are expected to stop prisoners who are in danger of self-harming,” the report quotes sources in the ministry, “so they would prevent prisoners self-harming by starving themselves.”
Gilad Erdan, May 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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