A la prison d’Eshel dans le Neguev, ce lundi, les gardiens ont frappé les prisonniers et leurs familles avec des bâtons, et les ont aspergé de gaz lacrymogènes.
Le père du prisonnier palestinien Omar al-Sharif, qui avait fait toute la route depuis Jérusalem Est pour aller voir son fils dans le désert du Neguev, au sud d’Israël est arrivé à 7h30 du matin, avec les autres familles. "On nous a laissés attendre jusqu’à midi à l’extérieur de la prison, puis l’administration nous a soumis à des fouilles particulièrement provocantes et humiliantes", témoigne-t-il.
"Ainsi les femmes, mères et épouses qui rendaient visite à leurs fils et maris, ont été obligées, d’enlever leurs foulards et tous leurs bijoux, ce qui était une première !"
"Les familles se sont plaintes dans la salle des visites, et un groupe de gardiens a alors envahi la pièce, nous attaquant les uns et les autres à coups de trique et de gaz lacrymogène. Puis les prisonniers ont été menottés et contraints de retourner dans leurs cellules".
"Après cette grève, les autorités israéliennes jouent avec nos émotions. Ils nous insultent, nous punissent et nous torturent. Ils essaient de nous épuiser, de nous briser et nous amener à ne plus avoir envie de rendre visite à nos proches", a déclaré l’un des visiteurs.
Ceci sachant que dans un pays aussi petit, le voyage pour les Palestiniens des territoires occupés qui veulent rendre visite en prison à un de leurs proches, prend entre 8 et 15 H, pendant lesquelles ils sont fouillés plusieurs fois et souvent forcés de se déshabiller, rappelle Addameer.
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Palestinian prisoners and their relatives assaulted by Israeli forces during visit
"Après cette grève, les autorités israéliennes jouent avec nos émotions. Ils nous insultent, nous punissent et nous torturent. Ils essaient de nous épuiser, de nous briser et nous amener à ne plus avoir envie de rendre visite à nos proches", a déclaré l’un des visiteurs.
Ceci sachant que dans un pays aussi petit, le voyage pour les Palestiniens des territoires occupés qui veulent rendre visite en prison à un de leurs proches, prend entre 8 et 15 H, pendant lesquelles ils sont fouillés plusieurs fois et souvent forcés de se déshabiller, rappelle Addameer.
Source : Maan News Agency
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Palestinian prisoners and their relatives assaulted by Israeli forces during visit
JUNE 7, 2017
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli prison forces attacked a number of Palestinian prisoners and their relatives during a family visit to Eshel prison on Monday morning, with security guards using pepper spray on both the prisoners and their family members and beating them with batons, relatives told Ma’an.
The father of prisoner Omar al-Sharif told Ma'an that the families had traveled from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem to Eshel prison more than 100 kilometers away in Israel’s southern Negev desert.
The families arrived at 7:30 a.m. and were not allowed inside until 12 p.m., he said, when both men and women were subjected to invasive and “provocative” searches at the hands of the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
Heated arguments erupted in the visitation room, until a group of IPS officers stormed the room and attacked prisoners and their family members with pepper spray and beat them with batons, before the prisoners were handcuffed and the visitors were forced out.
The father of prisoners Muhammad and Ahmad al-Bakri told Ma'an that IPS officers had treated visiting relatives harshly since they arrived to Eshel early in the morning.
“After going through inspections at the entrance and passing through the metal detectors, female IPS soldiers searched the women inside a separate room, and forced them to take off their headscarves and jewelry."
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli prison forces attacked a number of Palestinian prisoners and their relatives during a family visit to Eshel prison on Monday morning, with security guards using pepper spray on both the prisoners and their family members and beating them with batons, relatives told Ma’an.
The father of prisoner Omar al-Sharif told Ma'an that the families had traveled from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem to Eshel prison more than 100 kilometers away in Israel’s southern Negev desert.
The families arrived at 7:30 a.m. and were not allowed inside until 12 p.m., he said, when both men and women were subjected to invasive and “provocative” searches at the hands of the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
Heated arguments erupted in the visitation room, until a group of IPS officers stormed the room and attacked prisoners and their family members with pepper spray and beat them with batons, before the prisoners were handcuffed and the visitors were forced out.
The father of prisoners Muhammad and Ahmad al-Bakri told Ma'an that IPS officers had treated visiting relatives harshly since they arrived to Eshel early in the morning.
“After going through inspections at the entrance and passing through the metal detectors, female IPS soldiers searched the women inside a separate room, and forced them to take off their headscarves and jewelry."
Al-Bakri described the search as “an unprecedented provocation.”
An IPS spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment on the incident.
Improving conditions for family visits to Palestinian prisoners was a central demand of a 40-day mass hunger strike launched in Israeli prisons that ended last month.
Ahead of the hunger strike, international human rights organization Amnesty International denouncedIsrael for its “unlawful and cruel” practices towards Palestinian prisoners in a report.
An IPS spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment on the incident.
Improving conditions for family visits to Palestinian prisoners was a central demand of a 40-day mass hunger strike launched in Israeli prisons that ended last month.
Ahead of the hunger strike, international human rights organization Amnesty International denouncedIsrael for its “unlawful and cruel” practices towards Palestinian prisoners in a report.
One relative of an imprisoned Palestinian told the organization: “The Israeli authorities play with our emotions, they torture us and punish us. They try to break us, to tire us, so that we would want to visit our relatives less because of all the humiliation, searches, abuse and insults by soldiers or prison guards.”
According to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, the journey to prison for most residents of the occupied West Bank visiting detained relatives takes between eight to 15 hours depending on the prison and place of residence, while relatives of prisoners are routinely subjected to lengthy body searches and sometimes strip searches.
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According to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, the journey to prison for most residents of the occupied West Bank visiting detained relatives takes between eight to 15 hours depending on the prison and place of residence, while relatives of prisoners are routinely subjected to lengthy body searches and sometimes strip searches.
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