Hamas prisoners: Violations in Israeli jails rise with every round of peace talk

[ 21/09/2010 - 03:25 PM ]

WEST BANK, (PIC)-- The Hamas senior leadership committee of prisoners in Israeli jails said Tuesday that recent cell raids in Israeli jails recur with every new round of negotiations between PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What recent press reports and ex-prisoner testimonies revealed on Israeli violations against prisoners is only part of their daily suffering, the committee said in a press statement. The committee, which is the highest regulatory body for of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails, said violations have become a reality in all prisons lately, explaining that Hamas leaders are placed in solitary confinement and transferred from prison to prison, many of them are strip searched, and there has been a sharp increase in crackdowns in many prisons. The report said that the escalated campaign of abuse against prisoners is the tested Israeli way in light of direct negotiations between the PA in Ramallah. Prisoners say crackdown campaigns on prisoners have risen with every round of negotiations for the past 18 years. The prisoners committee went on to say in the statement there is a need to stand firmly together, take a stand against the conspiracies made by the Israeli prisons department, and deprive Israel the chance to use the peace talks as a cover-up for its crimes.