GAZA, (PIC)-- The PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners' affairs has confirmed that the Palestinian captives in Israeli jails were determined not to accept the orange uniform that the IPA wants to impose on them, and that they vowed to take unprecedented steps in this regard.

In a statement he issued and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, Reyadh Al-Ashkar, the information officer in the ministry, pointed out that the Palestinian detainees reject the orange uniform due to the bad psychological effect that would inflict on them because the orange uniform was known to be the uniform for those sentenced to the death penalty on the one hand, and because it would replicate the bad picture of the captives in the infamous US concentration camp of Guantanamu on the other hand.

He quoted the supreme committee of the captives as saying in a statement it issued and a copy of which was obtained by the ministry that high-ranking officials in the Israeli prison authority (IPA) had publicly stated that Palestinian captives in Israeli jails must be dealt with as criminals, and not as political detainees and freedom fighters.

The captives also accused the IPA of replicating what the Nazis had done to them as the orange uniform bears phosphoric reflectors that could make them an easy target to the Israeli snipers even during night time, stressing that the IPA decision reflects the criminal mentality of the Israeli occupation.