Palestinian inmates serving time in Israeli jail protested on Sunday after a prisoner who had beforehand assaulted a guard died whereas being hospitalized.
Aziz Awizat, serving a 30-year time period for plotting to explode buildings in Jerusalem by tampering with gasoline traces, died whereas being handled at Asaf Harofeh hospital for a coronary heart ailment on Sunday.
There had been no rapid particulars about his dying.
On Sunday evening, prisoners started banging on doorways and yelling to protest Awizat’s dying, in response to Hebrew media reviews.
Aziz Awizat (photograph credit score: courtesy of Shin Bet)
The disturbances had been reported at Eshel prisoner close to Be’er Sheva, the place Awizat, 53, had been serving, in addition to Ketziot Prison, in the Negev desert, and Gilboa jail in the Lower Galilee.
Following his dying, the Prisons Service beefed up guards at Eshel jail fearing riots, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
On May 7, Awizat was charged with attacking a guard with boiling water and hitting up with an electrical kettle. The guard suffered burns to his higher physique from the assault.
Awizat, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, was arrested in 2014 and convicted of attempting to set off explosions in a variety of buildings housing Israelis in East Jerusalem by damaging gasoline traces.
This January 20 explosion in Gilo, which killed three folks, served as an inspiration for Awizat (photograph credit score: Flash 90)
The Shin Bet stated he confessed beneath questioning that an unintended gasoline explosion that killed three folks in Jerusalem earlier that 12 months served as an inspiration.
He was additionally convicted of tried homicide for attacking a Jewish man with an ax in Jerusalem’s Old City in 2012.