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Minister of Internal Security: "Escape of prisoners from Gilboa Prison - failure!" | Israel today

2021-09-09T10:06:22.119Z


Omar Bar-Lev visited Ketziot prison after security prisoners rioted in the detention facility yesterday and set fire to cells • Bar-Lev emphasized that there is a lot to learn from the events and said:


The IPS crisis:

After security prisoners rioted in several prisons in the country yesterday, Minister of Internal Security Amar Bar-Lev visited Ketziot Prison today (Thursday), where six cells were set on fire. Inmates from Gilboa Prison.

It's a failure! "

During the tour, which was accompanied by Deputy Minister Yoav Saglovitz and IPS Commissioner Rav Gondar, Katie Perry, the minister met with the guards and fighters of the Masada unit who confronted the rioters and visited the wing where the cells were burned.

Minister Bar-Lev referred to the failure of the escape that occurred earlier this week during which six security prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison with blood on their hands and said that there was much to learn from the case.

"We will turn every stone in order to check what caused this failure. At the local level of the prison and what are the consequences in general the prison service. We will examine, locate and observe the necessary lessons and implement them."

Regarding the riots that took place last night at Ketziot Prison by security prisoners, the Minister added, "I congratulate you, prison guards, at the Ketziot Prison for conducting and taking your cool over the riots that occurred here over the past day. Continue to maintain high operational vigilance, because a similar or more serious incident It may happen again in the future. "

Deputy Minister Sagalowitz, who took part in the visit, said: Few know the hard day-to-day work of the prison service.

We saw yesterday the complex dealing with the arson and riots of prisoners in several prisons.

We are in the midst of a difficult escape event that has not yet ended.

"An in-depth investigation must be carried out, lessons learned, but now the most important thing is to arrest the terrorists and return them to prison."

The Commissioner of the Prison Service, Rabbi Gondar Katie Perry, thanked Minister Bar-Lev and Deputy Minister Saglovitz for the support they provided to the command and the women prisoners working in the field.

She also said that emphasis should be placed on professionalism and the execution of the work and the mission of the guards on the best side.

"The role of a jailer is not a simple and complex one, but whoever comes to do it is on the best side. Thank you for your determination, professionalism and the way you neutralized last night's threat without personal injury and also worked on the principle of human dignity alongside professionalism."

On the other hand, the Palestinian media reports that the families' visits to security prisoners in Israel have been canceled. A senior source among Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons told the Hamas-affiliated Shihab agency that "if Israel continues to take repressive measures against us, the prisoners will go on a full-scale strike in the coming days."

Source: israelhayom

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