Israeli forces raided on Tuesday a section in the Asqalan (Ashkelon) prison, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a statement.
"There is only one section where Palestinian prisoners are held in the Asqalan prison," Ayah Shreiteh, spokesperson for the Prisoners’ Club told °®Âþµº.
"Police forces of the Israeli jail authority conducted a violent search incursion into the mentioned section on Tuesday," said Shreiteh. "Israeli forces damaged prisoners’ belongings and confiscated electric devices."
"This is a continuation of the escalation by Israeli authorities against Palestinian prisoners since the beginning of June," noted Shreiteh. "In mid-June, Israeli forces also raided ."
"Raids into prisoners' sections are a common practice by Israeli forces," a senior documentation officer at the told °®Âþµº, asking not to be named.
"Israeli authorities use the 'Matsada' special forces for these raids, who use the highest level of non-lethal violence allowed in prisons," the officer explained. "This includes tear gas, pepper spray, baton beating, and on a few occasions rubber bullets were fired."
In June 2021, Israeli daily Haaretz revealed against Palestinian prisoners. The footage showed mass beating with batons and other demeaning treatment, which commentators described as "brutalising". In 2019, Israeli media also aired footage of Israeli raids on Palestinian cells, showing similar content.
According to the Prisoners' Club and other human rights groups, Israeli authorities have escalated repressive measures against Palestinian prisoners .
Palestinian prisoners repeatedly protested Israeli escalation after the Gilboa prison break, refusing meals, disobeying the morning counting and even in March.
Israeli authorities agreed to the prisoners' demands and the strike was called off. Human rights groups, however, told °®Âþµº later that the demands agreed upon by the Israeli jails authority were mostly not met in practice.