The leaders of the terrorists in Israeli prisons sent a letter in Hebrew to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Tuesday warning of "bloodshed" if the measures he announced imposing harsher conditions on security prisoners are implemented.
"With these measures against the security prisoners, he (Ben-Gvir) is going to set the region on fire. He is using us for populist needs to cover up his failures, and someone who fails to provide security to his citizens will not be able to break us. We will respond to him with a war of liberation," the letter reads.
"We are not ready to discuss the living conditions, and we will not fight for pita and showers. We are fighting for our liberation and the liberation of our homeland. Those who decided to move the war from outside the prison walls will find it moved back outside the prison: in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza," the terrorists wrote,
The terrorist leaders concluded their letter with a threat: "Every drop of blood that is spilled is a result of the adventures of the hilltop youth and offspring of Kahana. We have nothing to lose. Those who decided to fight us will find that we are warriors. To those who threaten us with the law of death - our destiny is to be warriors, And our hope is to be martyrs for the liberation of the homeland."
Yesterday, it was reported that National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in recent days ordered the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to allocate a showering time of only about four minutes for each terrorist prisoner, and to provide a total time of one hour of running water to each prison wing in which terrorists are held.
According to a report on the Ynet website, Ben-Gvir's move will be carried out in the first stage only in two wings of Nafha Prison, where there is a technical possibility to turn off the water. The IPS intends to implement the decision in the coming days, the report said.
In other prisons, special preparations will be needed to implement the decision, which is designed to prevent "intentional wasting of water" by the terrorists imprisoned in Israel.
About two weeks ago, Ben Gvir ordered the closure of pita bakeries in the Rimon and Ketziot security prisons. The bakeries were operated by terrorists imprisoned in these prisons and supplied fresh pita bread to the terrorists in prison.
"The minister's policy is to deny benefits and indulgences to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, to deny them 'benefits' that can be withheld by law and certainly to deny them rights that for some reason only terrorists and not criminal prisoners have," said Ben-Gvir at the time.