Israel allows journalists to visit West Bank prison after deaths in custody

Posted By on April 14, 2013

OFER PRISON, West Bank Put on the defensive by the recent deaths of two Palestinians in custody, Israeli authorities opened the gates of a West Bank prison on Sunday to foreign reporters, providing a rare, though controlled, look at conditions behind bars. The prisoner deaths, along with prolonged hunger strikes by several other inmates, set off a wave of street protests in the West Bank in recent weeks, raising concerns in Israel of a slide toward a third Palestinian uprising. Palestinian officials accused Israeli authorities of medical negligence in the death of one prisoner, who succumbed to cancer this month, and they alleged torture in the case of another who died in February while under interrogation by Israels Shin Bet security service

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Israel allows journalists to visit West Bank prison after deaths in custody

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