Israeli Special Forces assigned for quelling prisoners stormed overnight section 1 in Nafha prison and assaulted Palestinian prisoners causing injuries among prisoners and damages to their personal belongings Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs revealed Monday.
Head of the committee Issa Qaraqe affirmed that three Palestinian prisoners were injured as Israeli special forces attacked prisoners “beating them violently and firing tear gas inside their wards.”
He added that Israeli forces transferred 10 Palestinian prisoners including Mohamed al-Dahnoun who serves as the representative for the prisoners in section 4 of Nafha to solitary confinement after the prisoners attempted to “resist the Israeli aggression against them.”
Speaking to the PIC reporter head of the prisoners information center Abdul Rahman Shadid affirmed that Israeli forces stormed section 1 where Hamas’s prisoners are held and violently searched their belongings.
The Special Forces also prevented the prisoners from going out and violently attacked them with pepper gas.
Shadid pointed out that a state of tension has prevailed throughout the prison warming of more punitive measures against the prisoners.
Israeli cabinet declared Sunday a series of punitive measures against Hamas’s prisoners and martyrs in a failed attempt to push for the release of Israeli soldiers captured by Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas during 2014 aggression on Gaza.
