GAZA (PIC)– The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) has informed Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip that they would be transferred from Israeli jails and gathered in the Ramle prison in the 1948 occupied lands prisoners reported.
Prisoners in the Negev desert prison said that the prison authority had officially notified the prisoners with this decision on Friday night and that it would start implementing it after the Jewish holidays early next May.
They said that more than 120 Gaza prisoners in the Negev jail were informed with the decision.
Meanwhile the Negev prison authority decided to ban family visits to detainees held under administrative orders for one month as a punishment for using mobiles in their ward.
Detainees further said that the prison authority broke into their wards and launched a large-scale search campaign. The administrative detainees are held without charge or trial for several months and some of them for several years.
In a related development IOF troops at dawn Sunday arrested 12 Palestinians in Ramallah and Al-Khalil districts an IOF spokesman said claiming they were affiliated with Palestinian resistance factions or extended assistance to them.
The spokesman also acknowledged that his forces came under fire in Jenin and Ramallah during incursions but said no casualties were recorded.
In Al-Khalil Israeli settlers beat up a Palestinian shepherd while rearing his sheep east of Yatta village south of Al-Khalil city.
Palestinian security sources said that the settlers also blocked Palestinian farmers from heading to cater for their cultivated lands near an Israeli settlement in the same area.
They said that the settlers seized the Palestinian lands in a bid to expand their settlement.