Facts

• Hamas-affiliated Asra Media on Friday said a deal had been reached with Israel to make life return to normal for female Palestinian prisoners who reportedly faced increasingly tough measures in the past week, some of which prisoners' rights groups confirmed have been lifted.^[1]
• This comes a day after a state of heightened alert with reinforced staffing levels was imposed as Israeli authorities reportedly received intelligence that prisoners were planning to harm prison staff.^[2]
• This also follows the emergence of social media images and a video appearing to show three Iranian-made projectiles, similar to the shrapnel found in the city of Sderot after an attack from Gaza, with text on them warning: "The female prisoners are a red line."^[3]
• Israeli guards have been accused of torturing, isolating, and firing tear gas and pepper spray at female Palestinian prisoners held in the Damon Prison, as well as raiding their cells and cutting off their unit's electricity.^[4]
• Tensions between Palestinian prisoners and the Israel Prison Service have mounted after dozens of detainees suspected of terror offenses were transferred to solitary confinement over recent days.^[5]
• The leadership body of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails vowed in January to counter the Israeli crackdown with "insurrection and disobedience." It threatened to start a massive hunger strike on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in late March.^[6]