New group of prisoners’ families from Gaza headed on Monday morning to visit their sons imprisoned in Nafha prison.
The International Red Cross Committee said that 64 members of Gazan families including 15 children managed to leave Gaza Strip via Beit Hanoun crossing to visit their 41 relatives held in Nafha prison.
Last Monday spokeswoman for the Red Cross Society Suhair Zaqut denied that the Israeli authorities had banned family visits scheduled for Gaza prisoners.
Zaqut told the PIC reporter that no modification has been made yet for Gaza prisoners’ family visits.
Each prisoner from Gaza Strip has the right to meet his family once every two months she continued.
For his part spokesperson for Waed society for prisoners’ affairs affirmed that no Israeli intention has been declared till now to prevent family visits.
On January 1 the Israeli cabinet declared 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.
