The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that Israeli special forces last Sunday night maltreated Palestinian prisoners during a violent raid on their rooms in Ashkelon jail.
In a statement on Monday the commission explained that soldiers from the Dror prison unit and police officers stormed section 3 of the jail and ransacked its rooms adding that 12 prisoners were brutalized and herded together to the main yard where they stayed there in the cold weather for long hours.
The raid started at about eight o’clock on Sunday evening and continued until two o’clock after midnight according to the commission.
Later Israeli jailers threatened to take several punitive measures against them without stating the reason for searching their rooms.
