PCS asserted that Israeli prison service has trained special units to counter Palestinian prisoners’ protests. Amongst these units is one called Nehshon, and another called Matsada which use nonlethal weapons that can cause prisoners eyes to be plucked out, or pain lasting several days.
These units, according to the PCS, ransack prisoners’ living quarters overnight wearing masks, and even torture prisoners. They also confiscate prisoners’ property such as family letters and photo albums. It was one of these raids that sparked the clashes. No further details were given.
Israeli authorities have not commented on the report.
Three Palestinian prisoners wounded in Israeli quelling of protest |
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RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Three Palestinian prisoners were wounded at dawn Tuesday during the Israeli jailors' violent quelling of protests by prisoners over tragic incarceration conditions. The Hebrew radio claimed that the prisoners set their tents on fire in the Negev desert prison which necessitated intervention on the part of prison guards. It said that three prisoners were injured and one of the jailors was hurt in the confrontations that ensued. More than 2,000 Palestinians are held captives in Negev under harsh imprisonment conditions with many of them deprived of family visits. The prisoners' center for studies warned that the Israeli prisons authority could impose penalties on the prisoners as a result such as distributing them on other prisons and wards or beat them up. It asked human rights groups and institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs to immediately intervene before further possible worsening of the situation in the prison. |
