WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Palestinian commission for prisoners says Zionist special forces have raided the cells of Palestinian inmates at a detention facility in the occupied West Bank, vandalizing their belongings as Tel Aviv presses ahead with its torture, mistreatment and repressive measures against prisoners.
Hasan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said Zionist troops attacked Section 8 in Megiddo Prison, near the city of Umm al-Fahm, on Sunday morning, while Palestinian prisoners were inside their cells and destroyed their belongings, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
The occupying regime has ramped up repressive measures against Palestinian prisoners following a daring escape by six inmates from a high-security prison five months ago, with Zionist troops raiding several detention centers.
On September 6, six prisoners, five of whom belonged to the Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ fellow Gaza-based resistance group, escaped the Gilbao Prison in the northern part of the occupied territories through an underground tunnel.
Despite conducting a thorough search for days, the regime’s police service kept failing to find any clues about their whereabouts. However, the six inmates were re-arrested a few days later.
The jailbreak came as a huge embarrassment to the regime in Tel Aviv and exposed fault lines in its much-hyped security and intelligence apparatus.
Over 4,500 Palestinian political prisoners in the occupying regime’s prisons faced a repressive campaign by the Tel Aviv regime in the wake of the jailbreak.