Palestine: violent clashes break out between prisoners, Zionist forces in Negev prison

SANAA, Sept. 08 (YPA) – Several Palestinian media reported that Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Negev prison set their cells on fire today, Wednesday, in response to punitive measures taken by the occupation authorities against them, since the six prisoners escaped from the high-security Gilboa prison two days ago.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, The detainees of Section 6 in the Negev Prison set fire to the rooms, in refusal to “harass and threaten to escalate” pursued by the prison administration.

The Israeli Occupation Army Radio reported the summoning of about 30 soldiers to Katsyut prison (Negev prison) to deal with the riots that broke out inside it.

“The repression units are currently storming several sections of the Negev prison amid a state of extreme tension and reports of a fire in section 6 of the prison, in which prisoners from The Islamic Jihad and Fatah are located,” the prisoners’ committee said.

The escalation of the confrontation in prisons is linked to the attack on the Islamic Jihad organization, as the prison service tried to disperse the prisoners of jihad and distribute them to prisons, apart from the “punitive” measures imposed on the prisoners.

Earlier in the day, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office reported that “the repression units of the Zionist Prison Administration carried out, on Tuesday night, a fierce gas attack against prisoners of Section 3 in Gilboa prison”.

E.M