Exclusive: Israeli military takes over prisons administration
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Exclusive sources describe the ill-treatment the Palestinians are subjected to from their Israeli jailers.
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A general view of Gilboa prison
Exclusive sources from within the Israeli occupation prisons told Al Mayadeen that the occupation had turned the prisons into enclosed military barracks and that the Prison Service had handed over the prisons' administration to the military, which means that the prisoners could be killed at any moment.
The Israeli Military army dissolved prisoners' organizational bodies from the first moment it started running the prisons, according to the sources, merging all the prisoners into one room, regardless of their affiliation, pointing out that while some rooms can accommodate only 6 prisoners, more than 30 prisoners were jammed inside one room.
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The Israeli military informed the prisoners that they would be isolated and transferred to unknown places in the coming hours, the sources said.
The sources added to Al Mayadeen that the military stripped the prisoners of their clothes and all their belongings, and deprived some prisoners of food and water.
This comes after the Israeli "National Security" committee approved a proposal for a law declaring a state of emergency in prisons, allowing for changes in the conditions of detainees, in conjunction with the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood being waged by Palestinian resistance fighters.
In this context, the Israeli authorities will be able to imprison detainees without a bed, in violation of the so-called "Residency Law."
Israeli Channel 14 reported that visits will be restricted and prisoners will no longer be granted access to phones and television.
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