PNN/ Jerusalem/
The media advisor to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said that there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people infected with Coronavirus in the occupation prisons, and the total number reached 249 after four new cases were recorded, three of them in Rimon prison and the fourth in the Negev prison.
Abed Rabbo added in press statements on Saturday, that the year 2020 witnessed the infection of 140 prisoners, while 109 new cases have been recorded only since the start of 2021, most of them in the prisons of the Negev and Rimon, indicating that three sections have been allocated to quarantine and infected prisoners, one in Section 8 in Rimon Prison and the second in the Sahraw Nim Center near the Negev Prison, and a third in the Ella Center in Beersheba.