Israeli Forces Detain 13 Palestinians in Raids across West Bank

Rasa - Israeli forces detained 13 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement on Tuesday.

News ID: 428995

Date: 18 April 2017 - 23:01

RNA - It said that Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians from Ramallah, two from Bethlehem and one from Tulkarm, WAFA reported.

Israeli soldiers also detained a Palestinian from Jenin, one from Hebron, and another from Jerusalem.

The arrests were made on same day that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) canceled family visits to prisons and lawyers were barred from visiting prisoners on hunger strike in Gilboa prison, the Media Committee of Freedom and Dignity said.

Spokesman for the committee, Abdul Fattah Douleh, said the IPS informed the Red Cross that family visits to prisons have been canceled, describing the move as a punitive measure.

The Gilboa prison administration Tuesday also banned lawyers from visiting striking prisoners, alleging that “the prisoners cannot walk and reach the visitation rooms,” said the committee.

Meanwhile, Qaddoura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), confirmed that the IPS carried out large-scale transfers of the hunger striking prisoners and assembled many in single sections in some prisons.

Strike leaders Marwan Barghouti and Karim Younis were transferred from Hadarim Prison to solitary confinement in Jalameh. Other prisoners were also transferred from Nafha prison to solitary confinement in Ayala prison.

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