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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zena Al Tahhan

Tensions simmer among Palestinian prisoners as Israel cracks down

The Gilboa prison, a maximum-security Israeli jail from which six Palestinian inmates escaped in September, 2021 [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – After Hamas’s armed wing in the besieged Gaza Strip launched rockets towards Israel on Wednesday night, it explained its reasons; chief among them was the treatment of what it termed a “red line”: female Palestinian prisoners.

The announcement touched on an issue that has gone under the radar in the past week, with the focus instead on the escalating violence in the occupied West Bank.

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