ALBAWABA - A month after the killing of Palestinian prisoner Thaer Abu Assab in the Negev Desert detention camp, the Israeli Prisons Service has finally admitted that Abu Assab was beaten to death by 19 prison guards.
Prisoner Abu Assab was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to 25 years in prison and he is the sixth Palestinian prisoner to be killed by the occupation forces in Israeli prisons after October 7, according to the Palestinian Media Center.
On Sunday, the guards were detained for questioning under a warning, on suspicion of assaulting a prisoner, and were released after being interrogated. They are suspected of assault and causing injury.
Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, expressed his support for the prison guards, claiming they were innocent until proven otherwise, and that he is against charging anyone of them in the killing of Abu Assab while describing the Palestinian freedom fighters incarcerated in Israeli prisons as "human scums" and "murderers", WAFA reported.
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission had previously confirmed that the occupation authorities had assassinated Abu Assab, who was held at the Naqab desert prison. He had been detained since May 27, 2005, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
