BETHLEHEM (PIC)– An Israeli tribunal has decided to continue isolating Lebanese captives in Israeli jails from the rest of the prisoners amid complaints of those captives charging the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) with maltreating them.
Two of the captives Mohammed Soror and Maher Karwani who were captured during the Israeli war on Lebanon last summer revealed that the IPA is denying them a number of their privileges as POWs.
The two were brought before the Israeli court to look into their complaints of maltreatment. Their third comrade Hussein Suleiman refused to come rejecting to recognize the tribunal’s legitimacy.
Correspondent of the Hebrew Ma’ariv newspaper quoted the captives as saying that the IPA denies them radio TV and newspapers and that they were detained in the solitary confinement ward.
However the captives reiterated their confidence in Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah the secretary-general of the Lebanese Hizbullah party affirming that neither the Sheikh nor the party would abandon them.
After the court deliberations the judge ruled that the Lebanese captives must be allowed to receive their families’ letters on time and must be permitted to watch TV listen to radio and read newspapers.
But he adjourned ruling on the captives’ petition to end the solitary confinement.
Hizbullah party is holding two IOF servicemen with the aim of swapping them with Lebanese and Arab captives in Israeli jails.
A third Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit was captured by Palestinian resistance fighters last June and is still in captivity awaiting his government’s approval for conditions set forth by his captors to free him.
Captors of Shalit called on the Israeli occupation government to free Palestinian children and women captives in Israeli jails among other captives in return for Shalit’s freedom.
