Rights group says Israel tried to kill Palestinian detainee in Negev prison

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Israeli prison forces attempted to kill Palestinian detainee Ghassan Ibrahim Zawahreh by shooting him three times with rubber bullets inside Negev prison, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Wednesday.

In a statement, the nongovernmental organization held Israeli prison authorities fully responsible for Zawahreh’s life.

Zawahreh, from the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, has been subjected to degrading strip searches and severe beatings since being transferred from Ganot-Rimon prison to Negev prison on June 8, according to the group.

It said an Israeli special unit known as Metzada carried out an operation inside the prison on June 17, during which officers fired rubber bullets at detainees.

Zawahreh was first shot in the thigh before Israeli prison […]

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