An incarceration facility ( Hebrew : מתקן כליאה , Mitkan Kli'a ) is the official name given by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Prison Service to one of several prisons in Israel used to hold Palestinian prisoners - either under sentence or under administrative detention .
6-471: The Al-Moskobiya , Moscobiyeh , Muscovite or Moscovia Detention Centre is an Israeli detention and interrogation facility and prison in the Russian Compound of West Jerusalem . The center is used to interrogate Palestinian detainees and prisoners from a variety of age groups, including children. The Palestinian NGO Addameer has alleged that harsh methods of torture are used there. During
12-765: A complex of hostels and a green-domed church for pilgrims by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1860s. In 2017 a documentary by director Raed Andoni was released called Ghost Hunting ( Arabic : إصطياد اشباح Iṣṭiyād ʾAšbāḥ ). The movie, which explores the trauma of former prisoners of the Detention Center, was first screened in Ramallah for an audience consisting for ninety percent of former prisoners. Incarceration facility (Israel) In addition, there are several "suspension" facilities ( Hebrew : מתקן השהייה Mitkan Hashhaya ) run by
18-691: The British Palestine Mandate the center was known as 'the central prison'. It has been claimed that the prison especially became notorious due to its harsh torture techniques throughout the 1980s. In 1990, it was reported that the jail was used mainly for Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip . Both the Moscovia Detention Centre and the nearby Museum of Underground Prisoners are yellow brick buildings that were built as part of
24-648: The IDF built and expanded several such facilities adjacent to existing infrastructures at Megiddo Prison, Camp Ktzi'ot ( Nitzana ) and Camp Ofer . A small incarceration facility was also opened to the north of the Gaza Strip , near the Erez Crossing , as well as several facilities in the West Bank: Shomron, Etzion , Efraim, Menashe (Salem), Binyamin, etc. Most of the above were closed following
30-614: The IDF 's Military Police Corps , subordinate to their respective regional brigades, which complement the incarceration facilities and hold Palestinian detainees for a short period before they are sorted and moved to an incarceration facility run by the Israel Prison Service. The need for detention centers to hold large numbers of Palestinian detainees in Israel arose during the First Intifada . Beginning in 1988,
36-610: The Oslo Accords , although Megiddo and Ktzi'ot Prisons continued to operate with a smaller staff. The prisons were re-opened in 2002, following the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and Operation Defensive Shield . In 2006 reorganization of the prison system began, during which several facilities were closed and others facilities reassigned from IDF to Israel Prison Service (IPS) authority. As of 2006, all three incarceration facilities are operational and are subordinate to
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