Israeli occupation is to move number of Palestinian prisoners from prison cells to tents, Israeli media revealed, citing bill proposed by the Israeli Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan.
According to the Israeli TV Channel 7, the proposal is one of the solutions that the ministry is considering to overturn the implementation of a High Court ruling on the issue.
In the middle of June, the Israeli High Court ruled that the Israeli occupation authorities had to find alternatives to mitigate the overcrowding of the Palestinian inmates in the Israeli jails.
The High Court’s ruling came in response to a petition filed by several Israeli human rights organisations, in which they demanded increasing the cell space for each inmate to four square metres.
Currently, each prison cell in the Israeli occupation prisons is less than three-square metre, including bed and bathroom.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has recently reported that High Court saying that the Israeli prisons “do not fit for human habitation.”
The newspaper compared the space in the Israeli prisons to that space in the European prisons, stating that each prisoner in the European prisons has a space of 8.8 square metre.
Some 6,500 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli jails, 57 of whom are women while 350 are children, according to the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs.
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