Youth News Palestine-Gaza

 A group of Palestinian prisoners is saying that the violence at Israel’s Ketziot prison last Monday may have been worse than originally reported.
A statement signed by prisoners from five Palestinian factions accused the Israeli Prison Administration of being responsible for injuring 300 prisoners and burning six tents at the desert prison compound.
The prisoners said attacking guards aimed their guns at prisoners’ upper bodies, indicating an intent to kill or maim.
A prisoner named Mohammad Al-Ashqar was killed in the early morning raid. His body was transfered to the West Bank on Thursday.
The statement also said that 30 prisoners are now suffering from damaged eyesight as a result of bullet wounds.
The letter was signed by members of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
A Palestinian prisoner who was released from Ketziot on Friday said that daily humiliation and poor physical conditions inside the facility forced the inmates to resist the prison guards’ abuse.
Ismael Kabatyeh, who spent 18 months in the jail said that guards would force the inmates to strip of their clothes, and that prisoners were forced to eat the same unseasoned food for more than 80 days.
These conditions, and the prison guards’ raid, Kabatyeh said, caused the prisoners to "wage an Intifada inside the prison."