RAMALLAH: There were 200 attacks on Palestinian prisoners by Israeli special forces during 2011, according to Palestinian Minister of Detainee Affairs Issa Qaraqe..
The attacks usually happened during the night and aimed to humiliate and provoke detainees, Qaraqe said in a statement.
Hundreds of prisoners were wounded during the year and detainees were also subject to solitary confinement, banned from family visits and financial penalties, the minister added.
“It was the worst year for the prisoners movement. Prisoners were banned from education and completing their senior high school, and brutal punishments were implemented against them,” he added.
Qaraqe said Israel was planning to close its Naqeb prison and transfer detainees to other jails.
Qaraqe said in a statement that Israel’s prisons chief threatened to use force to evacuate the jail during a recent meeting with prisoner representatives.
Prisoners wrote to the Israeli prison service chief and said he would be held responsible for any attacks on detainees, the minister said.
As 2012 drew to an end, medical shortages in the Gaza Strip reached their highest levels, a spokesman for Gaza’s health ministry said.
Ashraf Al Qidra said that medics in the besieged coastal enclave had to cope with shortages of medicine and medical equipment on a daily basis, affecting over one-third of patients.
Patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, kidney failure and neuritis were the worst affected, Qidra said.
Hospitals and health centers have totally run out of 145 basic medicines and 150 types of medical equipment, he added.
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