Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners threatened to kill Israel’s internal security minister. “If Israel does not improve the conditions of our incarceration, we will set the prisons on fire,” a jailed Islamic Jihad terrorist who gave his name as Jumaa told the Ma’ariv newspaper Thursday.
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