Located in the Negev Desert in South Israel, Ketziot’s arrest is where the four Portuguese citizens arrested by the Israeli authorities after trying to pierce the blockade Gaza aboard the humanitarian flotilla.
About 72 kilometers from Bersheba and near the Egyptian border, Ketziot’s arrest became the largest detention field managed by the Israeli army. During the first intifada (a revolt of the Palestinian population against Israelites), Three rooms of the Palestinians detained by the Israelite army came to be there and more than half of all Palestinians detained in the country.
In all, the prison complex has 40 hectares, being the largest in the entire Israeli territory. In 1990, according to Human Rights Watch, One in 50 Palestinian men (including Gaza) over 16 was detained there. It would eventually be closed in 1995, having been reopened in 2002, the year of the second intifada.
Now that’s where the Israeli regime has placed the Left Bloc leader Mariana Mortágua, actress Sofia Aparício, and the two activists Miguel Duarte and Diogo Chaves. According to the DN source of MNE, the ambassador in Israel visited them in the premises and confirmed that everyone “are well of health”, despite the “difficult” conditions in the detention center.
According to a publication by Joana Mortágua no X, the blocked spokesman reported through the consul and claims to be “in a cell with 12 [pessoas]”And” without food or water or 48 hours. ”