Fifteen cm knife. Illustration
צילום: גבי מנשה
Palestinian youth stabs guard in Hasharon prison
Palestinian prisoner in juvenile wing of Hasharon prisoner stabs guard in the back with 15 cm knife
Friday morning, a prison guard was moderately injured after being stabbed in the back by a prisoner from wing 8 in the Hasharon prison – the wing housing underage Palestinian prisoners.
The incident took place when the guard visited the prison wing to perform a routine a prisoner count. Upon entering one of the cells, a seventeen year old youth, originally jailed for throwing Molotov cocktails, attacked him, wielding a makeshift knife 15 cm in length. The youth managed to stab the guard twice in the back, before being restrained by another prison guard.
MDA paramedics were called immediately. They transferred the officer to the Meir hospital in Kfar Saba, upon identifying that he had sustained moderate injuries.
Pursuant to the stabbing, the prison declared an emergency situation. As such, all prisoners were returned to their cells, wings were locked and family visits ended.
Prison authorities are examining the circumstances surrounding the incident, in particular how a prisoner was able to possess a sharp instrument of this size without being detected, despite searches of the premises routinely undertaken by prison guards.
