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Thursday, June 29, 2017
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Israel said denying family visits to Hamas prisoners
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas says Israel is now denying family visits to members of the terror organization in Israel’s prisons.
Israeli sources unofficially confirm the report, but refusing to do so on the record.
According to Hamas, the new measure is intended to pressure the group to release two Israeli citizens held in Gaza and the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.
“We condemn the punishment against our prisoners,” Hamas says in a statement that calls the move “the beginning of a war against the prisoners. We will not allow this decision to stand, whatever the price may be.”
— Avi Issacharoff
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