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| Palestinians riot in Israeli prison |
| By Hi Pakistan |
| Published: 08/27/2003 |
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Israeli prison guards used tear gas and water cannons to put down a riot by Palestinian prisoners at Megiddo jail in northern Israel on Wednesday, military sources said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the disturbance, the second by Palestinian prisoners in a month. The inmates were protesting at a transfer of some prisoners to Kziot prison in southern Israel, the sources said, adding that only a few dozen of the more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held in the jail were involved in the riot. The prisoners set fire to the tents in which they were being detained and pelted stones at their warders, injuring some of them lightly, the military sources said. Some of the prisoners then clashed with border guards brought in, as reinforcement, sources said. The prisoner said that dozens of prisoners were injured and at least one of the tents housing the prisoners caught fire. Kziot has a reputation among Palestinian prisoners for poorer conditions than Megiddo. 'This is a political riot, a protest. The administration of the prison wanted to punish us so they decided to transfer 220 prisoners who are serving life sentences to Kziot. We refused that,' a prisoner spokesman who identified himself as Yassin Yassin told Reuters by mobile phone from inside. 'The soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets and there are tents ablaze,' he said. Israel has jailed about 6,000 Palestinians arrested in connection with a 34-month-old uprising, many held without charges. |
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