Heatwave in Israeli jail: An ‘unbearable’ life for Palestinian prisoners
The past five years of sweltering summers remind Yacoub Abu Asab of the Israeli prisons where he spent 15 years of his life. For Palestinian detainees, the hot season is itself a prison within a prison. Israel's restrictive measures compound the woes of prisoners made to suffer through yearly heatwaves in prisons located in the desert or near hot, humid valleys that make life unbearable, the 51-year-old former detainee told Middle East Eye. Abu […]
