Israeli repression units raided today several sections in Asqalan Prison, where Palestinian political detainees are incarcerated, and conducted wide-scale searches in the rooms of the prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
The PPS said in a statement that the Israel Prison Service has imposed new penalties against the Palestinian prisoners there, in the aftermath of the miraculous escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa Prison on Sunday-Monday night.
The Israeli prisons’ repression units are composed of heavily trained soldiers armed with knives, batons, teargas canisters, electric sticks and other means of repression. The soldiers are especially trained to attack Palestinian political prisoners and keep them under constant crackdown.
The Israeli occupation authorities are incarcerating more than 4,500 Palestinian and Arab prisoners for resisting the Israeli occupation of their homeland.
In recent years, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention have launched multiple strikes to demand better imprisonment conditions, including an end to the unjustified Israeli policy of raiding prisoners’ sections.
Source: Palestinian News & info Agency