8/12/2023–|Last updated: 12/8/202306:15 AM (Mecca time)
Yesterday, Thursday, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir instructed his authorities to detain prisoners from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in an underground prison that has not been used for years.
Israel claims that it is arresting dozens of members of the elite unit of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, who participated in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 last year on Israeli settlements and military bases surrounding the Gaza Strip. Israel did not clarify the number of these prisoners or where they are being held.
Ben Gvir – the leader of the far-right Jewish Power Party – said in a post on Telegram that after years of non-use, I instructed the Prisons Commissioner (Katy Perry) to reopen the underground wing for Al-Qassam detainees.
He added that these prisoners “do not deserve a drop of sunlight while our detainees (referring to Israeli prisoners and detainees held by Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip) are sitting in the tunnels of hell,” as he claimed.
The minister did not disclose the location or name of the prison, but the Israeli news site Ynet said that it was talking about Ramla prison in central Israel.
The website indicated that 100 detainees could be detained in the aforementioned section.
Ben Gvir had previously indicated that these prisoners are being detained in difficult conditions, including not being able to see the sun, sleeping on iron beds, and being forced to listen to the Israeli national anthem constantly.
In their attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Palestinian factions, led by the Qassam Brigades, captured about 240 Israelis and took them to the Gaza Strip. Dozens of them, civilians, women and children, were released in an exchange deal during a temporary humanitarian truce that lasted for a week with Qatari mediation and support. Egyptian and American.
Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 17,000 martyrs and tens of thousands wounded, most of them women and children.
The aggression resulted in massive infrastructure destruction and unprecedented catastrophic conditions, according to Palestinian and UN sources.