The Israeli occupation authorities on Thursday morning prevented the mother of the Palestinian prisoner Ayman Itbeish 37 from visiting him at Ramon jail.
The Israeli authorities told Itbeish’s mother that she is prevented from visiting her son under a security ban announced by the Shin Bet.
Itbeish’s mother affirmed that she had obtained a permit from the International Committee of the Red Cross with the consent of the Israeli authorities to visit her son at Ramon jail but when she arrived at Itamar checkpoint the Israeli soldiers stationed there stopped her and informed her that she is not allowed to visit Ayman by a Shin Bet decision.
Mohjat al-Quds Foundation said that the Israeli decision to prevent Itbeish’s mother from visiting her son is a clear violation of the agreement between the supreme leadership of the Islamic Jihad prisoners in Israeli jails and the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Shin Bet on 13th April 2018.
The IPS according to the agreement was supposed to end the solitary confinement imposed on Itbeish within a month and allow his family to visit him regularly without complications in exchange for suspending the open hunger strike he launched earlier.
Mohjat al-Quds said that the IPS arbitrarily transferred Itbeish on 28th November 2017 from Ofer to Ohlikdar prison for undisclosed security reasons before holding him in solitary confinement at Ramon jail.
The Israeli occupation forces arrested Ayman Itbeish on 2nd August 2016 and he has been detained since then without charge or trial.
According to Mohjat al-Quds Itbeish had waged two hunger strikes before that lasted for 105 and 100 days in protest against his administrative detention.
Itbeish born on 20th April 1980 has not completed his university studies yet because of being repeatedly arrested by the Israeli occupation forces. He was arrested five times before and spent over 13 years in Israeli jails because of his affiliation with the Islamic Jihad movement.
