Israeli occupation’s repression units attack Palestinian prisoners in Ktzi’ot jail

Israeli occupation’s repression units raided today section 2 in the Israeli prison of Ktzi’ot, in the Naqab desert, where Palestinian  detainees are incarcerated, and brutally assaulted and clashed with them, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

 

The PPS said in a statement that clashes erupted between the Palestinian prisoners and the attacking repression units, but said no further details were available concerning the situation of the prisoners at the moment.

 

The Israeli prison’s repression units are composed of heavily trained soldiers armed with knives, batons, teargas canisters, electric sticks and other means of repression. The soldiers are especially trained to attack Palestinian political prisoners and keep them under constant crackdown, according to WAFA News Agency.

 

The agency pointed out that last night Israeli settlers attacked vehicles of Palestinians as they passed through a checkpoint belonging to the Israeli occupation forces near the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas town in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

 

Muataz Besharat, a local anti-settlement activist, told WAFA that the settlers physically attacked the vehicles and smashed the windshields of two of them as they approached the checkpoint.

 

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

 

Compiled by : Basma Qaddour