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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Nafha Prison

Illustrative: A police officer keeps watch from an observation tower at the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
August 18, 2023, 12:51 am
Some 1,000 Hamas prisoners warn they’ll launch hunger strike over conditions
Prisoner representatives have raged against transfers of inmates and other limitations; Minister Ben Gvir’s visit to Ofer Prison also seen as provocative
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center) listens to Israel Prison Service chief Katy Perry (left) during a visit to Nafha Prison, January 6, 2023. (Israel Prison Service)
February 14, 2023, 4:21 am
Ben Gvir said to order reduced shower time for terror inmates
Security prisoners to be allotted four minutes to wash, after national security minister and Prisons Service allege deliberate waste of water
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center) listens to Israel Prison Service chief Katy Perry (left) during a visit to Nafha Prison, January 6, 2023. (Israel Prison Service)
January 6, 2023, 11:36 pm
Ben Gvir visits renovated jail to ensure Palestinians’ conditions unimproved
Hamas lashes minister’s ‘criminal behavior’ after he tours the high-security Nafha Prison following renovations
By ToI Staff
Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv. August, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)
May 12, 2019, 8:33 pm
2 East Jerusalem men charged with planning Tel Aviv beach shooting for Hamas
Indictments say pair met in prison, planned to carry out attack; upon their release, they contacted operative, who suggested they kill Jerusalem mayor, police chief or MK
By ToI Staff
A picture released by the Shin Bet security agency on December 6, 2018, shows cellphones, a drone and cash that were allegedly tied to a failed attempt to smuggle phones into a security prison using a drone. (Shin Bet)
December 6, 2018, 9:51 pm
Shin Bet busts cell behind attempt to smuggle phones into prison with drone
Security agency says cellphones confiscated during failed effort in October were meant for prisoners serving time for terror involvement
By ToI Staff
Illustration: Drone, money and cellphones seized in a twarted attempt to fly contraband into southern Israel prison (Police spokesman's unit)
October 6, 2018, 9:12 pm
Attempt to smuggle cell phones into security prison via drone thwarted by police
Two suspects taken for questioning, and unmanned aerial vehicle impounded; security services said to be investigating terror link to incident
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Oren Hazan boards a bus carrying family members of Gazans being held in Israeli military prison, December 25, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Hayom)
December 26, 2017, 4:30 pm
Likud MK Oren Hazan gets extra security after Hamas threats
Terror group spokesperson lashes out at Israeli lawmaker, who confronted a busload of Gazans visiting relatives jailed in Israel
By Dov Lieber
Likud MK Oren Hazan boards a bus carrying family members of Gazans being held in Israeli military prison, December 25, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Hayom)
December 25, 2017, 7:24 pm
Likud MK confronts, threatens Palestinians visiting imprisoned relatives
Oren Hazan boards bus carrying families of security prisoners to Nafha prison, vows to ‘wipe the disgusting smile off their faces’
By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber
A Palestinian inmate stabs an Israeli guard at Nafha prison in southern Israel on February 1, 2017. (Screen capture)
October 17, 2017, 6:09 pm
Hamas prisoner sentenced for stabbing guard with screwdriver
Footage of the attack, which occurred in February, comes out as court gives assailant two more years behind bars
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Ketziot Prison, August 2009. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)
June 1, 2017, 2:15 pm
Palestinian prisoners turn to smuggled Egyptian SIM cards – report
Prisons in southern Israel said to see growing use of networks from across the border as inmates bid to bypass phone restrictions
By Sue Surkes
An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
February 1, 2017, 11:53 pm
Hamas inmates attack Israeli guards in prison protests
Officers in two separate jails lightly hurt by screwdriver-wielding members of terror group that urges other prisoners to follow suit
By Sue Surkes
MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Israel Police's Lahav 433 special investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016, for questioning. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
December 22, 2016, 10:01 pm
Arab MK arrested on suspicion of smuggling phones to terrorists
Move comes after lawmaker Basel Ghattas waves his immunity, insisting he has ‘total faith in my innocence, because I have nothing to hide’
By ToI Staff
MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Israel Police's Lahav 433 special investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016, for questioning. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
December 22, 2016, 6:51 pm
Knesset lifts immunity of Arab MK accused of smuggling phones to terrorists
Police prepare to search Basel Ghattas’s home, office; lawmaker says he has ‘total faith in my innocence, because I have nothing to hide’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a prisoner in leg cuffs (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 11, 2016, 2:35 pm
2 Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel said to end hunger strikes
Jawad Jawarish, 40, and Maher Ibayyat, 38, reportedly moved out of solitary confinement following deal with authorities
By ToI Staff
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