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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Report: Prisoners, guard injured in jail clashes

Ma'an
Three Palestinian prisoners and one Israeli warden were injured on Tuesday morning in clashes that at Israel’s Negev desert prison camp, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PCS). [Israel holds approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners.]

PCS asserted that Israeli prison service has trained special units to counter Palestinian prisoners’ protests. Amongst these units is one called Nehshon, and another called Matsada which use nonlethal weapons that can cause prisoners eyes to be plucked out, or pain lasting several days.

These units, according to the PCS, ransack prisoners’ living quarters overnight wearing masks, and even torture prisoners. They also confiscate prisoners’ property such as family letters and photo albums. It was one of these raids that sparked the clashes. No further details were given.

Israeli authorities have not commented on the report.
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