Israeli prison guards on Tuesday stormed one of the Negev prison’s sections assaulted prisoners and ransacked their cells before transferring them to other sections.
According to Asra Media Center a prison intervention squad raided section 4 of the prison and transferred all its 120 inmates to sections 3 and 10 with no stated reason.
The Israeli prison service (IPS) recently intensified raids on cells of Palestinian prisoners and transferred many of them to other jails or sections in order to create a state of psychological instability and confusion among them.
In a separate development the IPS decided to open new sections for Palestinian minors after recent arrests among them caused severe overcrowding in all juvenile sections of Megiddo prison.
According to the Palestinian Commission for Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs the IPS will start to transfer Palestinian children from Megiddo jail to a new section to be opened in Ofer prison.
