Hundreds ofPalestinian prisoners in Israeli jails staged on Tuesday a one-day hunger strike, to protest new Israeli restrictions. The strike was announced in a statement on Monday by the ‘Higher National Prisons Committee’, a leadership structure of Palestinian prisoners representing all political factions in Israeli jails, including rivals Hamas and Fatah. The statement, made public by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, signalled an escalation of protest moves in jails, declaring an ‘Intifada [uprising] of the prisons’. Prisoners have been protesting for two weeks against “restrictions by the I…