A small batch of Gazan families was allowed access out of the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday to visit their relatives held in an Israeli prison.
Spokeswoman for the International Red Cross Committee Suheer Zaqout said 19 Palestinians from the blockaded Gaza Strip among them four children below the age of 16 headed to Ramon jail via Beit Hanun border-crossing to visit nine Palestinian detainees.
Over 6000 Palestinian prisoners including 350 from Gaza are locked up in Israeli penitentiaries where they have been denied their basic human rights most notably the right to family visits. At least 206 Palestinian detainees died in Israeli occupation jails owing to preplanned medical neglect and torture.
