Palestinian Prisoners Protest Israeli Lawmaker’s Attack of Families on Jail Visit

Rasa - Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails Tuesday started a protest campaign after an extremist Israeli lawmaker Monday verbally assaulted their families who were visiting them.

News ID: 435529

Date: 27 December 2017 - 23:52

RNA - The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said the retaliation measures included the returning of meals and refusing to stand in line for the daily prisoners' count, WAFA reported.

The right-wing member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), Oren Hazan, was filmed shouting and verbally abusing the Palestinian families who were on their way to visit their loved ones in Israel’s custody, sparking widespread condemnations.

Flanked by Israeli police and camera crews, Hazan boarded a bus carrying the families of the prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were about to enter Nafha Prison in Southern occupied territories.

“We will kick you out of here,” he told the bus occupants.

“Those scumbags, those garbage, dogs that sit in our prisons that you call family, they will never see daylight. And as long as I’m a member in this Knesset, I will do the best I can to change the law so you cannot visit here," Hazan added.

The Israeli lawmaker shouted at one prisoner’s mother calling her son an “insect”, and when one of the mothers tried to respond to Hazan’s curses, he replied, “shut up” in Arabic.

Twenty two people, including four children, were on their way to visit their sons in Damon prison when Hazan got on the bus and attacked them.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Palestinian Authority condemned Hazan's assault on the Palestinian families.

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