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DaSangarTalib
04-02-2006, 02:12 PM
Israeli security forces fired tear gas while transferring some 250 Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli Negev Desert jail on Sunday, according to senior Palestinian official.

Israeli soldiers also shot and wounded three prisoners in the southern Israeli jail.

The prisoners told WAFA new agency that Israeli jailers opened fire randomly during the transfer of 240 prisoners to the Israeli central jails, wounding three prisoners with rubber- metal coated bullets.

Israeli forces entered a jail in Negev in southern Israel using tear gas and firing rubber bullets to force the prisoners out, Eassa Qaraquea, chief of the Palestinian Prisoners Club Association, adding that at least three Palestinians sustained rubber bullets injuries.

Israeli authorities decided to forcibly transfer 240 Palestinian prisoners out of 700 from Negev Jail to other jails inside the Jewish State.

The Gaza based Prisoners Center for Information said that prison authority threatened to use 5000 Israeli soldiers to break into the prison's departments.

Hisham Abdel Razeq, chief of prisoners’ affairs department in the Palestine Liberation Organization says that contacts were held with the Negev jail's administration in an attempt to end current inhuman conditions inside the prison, urging Palestinians to express solidarity with the prisoners' question.

He also stated he would appeal to several international organizations to help with the matter.

"The aim of such contacts is to put an end to the ongoing occupation forces' violence and violations of the Palestinian prisoners' rights," said Razeq.

Spokeswoman for the prison service confirmed to AFP that Israeli authorities used rubber bullets and tear gas during transfer operation, but claimed that nobody was injured.

"Yes, we did fire into the air but not in front of them. No one was injured. I think that in one cell bloc (tear gas was used) but not in front of them," claimed Orit Stelser, who was at Ketziot prison during the transfer.

"There were no injuries, not one. We did not use force".
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