Forces of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) stormed sections 2 and 12 of Nafha prison amid a state of tension after a Palestinian prisoner was accused of stabbing and wounding an Israeli guard.
Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said in press statements that an Israeli force of 400 prison officers handcuffed the Palestinian prisoners in the two sections and forced them out in the prison yard.
Earlier Wednesday prisoner Khaled Silawi 27 stabbed an Israeli officer in Nafha desert prison responding to the humiliation practiced against Palestinian prisoners by the prison administration.
The Prisoners Media Office (an institution concerned with Palestinian prisoners’ affairs) said that a Palestinian prisoner affiliated with Hamas Movement stabbed an Israeli officer in response to the insults and restrictions imposed on prisoners by the prison administration.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society said that tension escalated in Nafha prison as the IPS launched raids into the prison searching and beating prisoners which led a prisoner to react to these violations and stab an Israeli officer with a sharp tool.
Voice of Prisoners Radio reported that the IPS imposed a curfew in Nafha prison and started punitive procedures following the stabbing attack carried out by prisoner Silawi from Beit Lahia city in the northern Gaza Strip which caused several injuries to the officer.
The broadcast said tension is still high in Nafha prison and the IPS summoned reinforcements to help in quelling the prisoners in addition to imposing a complete news blackout on what is going on inside the prison.
The Palestinian prisoners in all Israeli jails had announced a state of alert protesting the savage repressive practices against them.
