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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					27/01/2011 &#8211; 10:57 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NABLUS, (PIC)&#8211; Some families of  Palestinian prisoners said they are deprived of visiting their sons in  Israeli jails before they accept to be strip searched by soldiers.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Fatima Mahmoud, a mother of prisoner from  Nablus city, said the Israeli soldiers order the visiting mothers,  sisters or daughters to enter a room and ask them to remove their  clothes if they want to visit their kinsmen.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">She added the women always reject the strip search, and thus they have to leave without seeing their relatives.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The families appealed to human rights  organizations to pressure the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to stop  the policy of strip search at checkpoints and jails.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a separate incident, the Palestinian  prisoners in Ashkelon jails protested the search raids carried out on a  daily basis on their cells by Israeli jailers who deliberately cause  damage to their personal belongings at the pretext of looking for hidden  cellphones.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Palestinian prisoner society said that  the jailers in this prison ransacked section five days ago and refused  to provide the detainees there with food and medication which prompted  them take protest steps against the prison administration.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For her part, activist in prisoners&#8217;  affairs Mayser Ityani said the administration of Damon prison and the  Israeli intelligence apparatus renewed the administrative detention of  female detainee Linan Abu Gilma.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ityani stated that detainee Abu Gilma was  kidnapped months ago along with her sister Tagreed and went on hunger  strike for 22 consecutive days to demand her transfer from Hasharon  prison and her solitary confinement.</p>
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