NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli Prison Service special units wreaked havoc on prisoners’ belongings in the Megiddo prison in a search raid on Sunday morning, a rights group with contacts inside the prison said.
Meanwhile, nine prisoners, most of whom were recently arrested in raids on Al-Khalil in the West Bank, have been placed under administrative detention after recommendations by the Israeli Attorney General, the International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights also reported.
IPS intervention unit Nahshon raided Room 9 in Section 5 of the Megiddo prison causing damages to private property and causing the prisoners to miss the meal before the Ramadan fast, said ISFHR researcher Ahmed al-Beitawi.
The ISFHR also said, quoting imprisoned reporter Nawwaf al-Amir, programs director at Al-Quds Channel, that there is an acute shortage of clothes at the prison as the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of Ramadan, draws nearer.
He said that the prison has refused to allow items of clothing into the prison except during family visits, forcing prisoners to lend out clothes among themselves.
In addition, West Bank prisoner rights expert Fouad al-Khafsh said that prisoners have returned medicines to the prison ward because they were received without the packaging, sparking doubts to whether or not they were expired.
Khafsh also pointed out that the prison eye doctor has been available to the prisoners only once every six months.
He added that the recreational area of the prison is extremely constricted and does not have enough space for all the inmates. He said that some 620 prisoners go together to a yard no larger than 20 x 6 meters.
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