Two ISM activists prevented from entering Jericho governmental compound

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Update from Jericho

At 17:30 two ISM activists, Neta and Chris, were detained while trying to enter the Jericho governmental compound. The two activists were accompanying a medical team that wanted to give medical aid to the prisoners wounded during the siege on the Jericho prison. Border police drove them away from the compound and released them around 18:10.

During the incident one of the activists overheard an Israeli commander say: "Shoot anyone who is leaving the prison."

Since this morning a large number of Israeli soldiers, jeeps, tank and Apache helicopters are attacking the prison of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Jericho. They are demanding the surrender of six members of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) who are imprisoned for the assassination of Israeli minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.

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ISM Media Office: 02 2971824