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Transcripts obtained by Haaretz reveal that the deputy prison commissioner disobeyed an order to block cellphone service in Gilboa Prison, a move which assisted six Palestinian prisoners escape in September
Monday, 11 January, 2021 - 09:15
Palestinian prisoners at Gilboa prison. (AFP file) Tel Aviv - Asharq Al-Awsat
Five human rights organizations in Israel submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court to force Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails against COVID-19.
The mover was made after he had decreed that the detainees would not receive the vaccine.
The joint petition was signed by the Adalah Legal Center, Association for Civil Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Center for the Defense of the Individual, and Rabbis for Human Rights.
The organizations demanded that the court order the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to inoculate all prisoners against COVID-19, especially those over the age of 60.