Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan ordered that all visits to Palestinian security prisoners be suspended. The call to halt visits came as a result of the spread of the Coronavirus in Palestinian Authority, P.A., controlled territory.

“Stopping the visits to prisons is a necessary and committed reality. Corona’s arrival in the prisons could cause mass incarceration of prisoners with the disease and we must do our utmost to prevent such a scenario from materializing,” Erdan said.

The new measure came on Sunday just before Prime Minister Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman decided to postpone a final decision regarding placing all travellers from abroad into home quarantine once they arrive in Israel.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)