GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs on Sunday strongly denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for depriving Jerusalemite families of visiting their sons and daughters in Israeli jails.

Information director in the ministry Riyadh Al-Ashqar appealed to human rights organizations to protect the families of prisoners in Jerusalem and ensure their access to prisons to visit their relatives.

Ashqar said that Israel deliberately deprives 350 prisoners from Jerusalem including four women of visits.

He pointed to some ways used by Israel to prevent Palestinians in Jerusalem from visiting their relatives, saying that the Israeli troops block the families who want to reach prisons from crossing barriers and tear off their permits, and those who manage to reach prison are not allowed in and demanded to return to their homes without visiting their relatives.

The official also noted that Israel does not agree to include the names of any Jerusalemite prisoners in any swap deal with the Palestinian resistance and at the same time they are deprived of many constitutional rights which are provided to Israeli prisoners.

For its part, the information committee of Hamas prisoners reported Sunday that the IOA transferred prisoner Ibrahim Hamed, one of Al-Qassam Brigades leaders in the West Bank, from his solitary confinement in Hasharon prison to another isolation cell in Ayalon prison one week after Israeli jailers physically assaulted him.

The committee explained that Hamed was transferred to Ayalon prison after he was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers and officers in Hasharon which caused him different serious injuries all over his body.

The committee added that the Hasharon prison administration, before transferring Hamed to Ayalon, deprived him of any visit, confiscated his books and other belongings and prevented him from leaving his cell after the physical assault he was exposed to.

Prisoner Hamed did not stand trial until this moment despite the passage of more than three years of captivity and Israel refused to include his name in any swap deal.

In another context, the wife of prisoner Nafid Haraz expressed her hope that that Palestinian resistance would include her husband in any future swap deal with Israel after he neared the completion of 25 years in Israeli jails.

Umm Ahmed told the Wa’ed society for prisoners’ affairs that her husband Haraz was kidnapped in January 1985 at the age of 30 and was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing Israeli soldiers in Gaza city.

She added that in the first swap deal, her sons was waiting for their father to be out of prison, but today her 21 grandchildren are waiting for the release of their grandfather Nafid Haraz.

For its part, the Israeli magistrate court in the town of Al-Khadera in the 1948 occupied lands extended the detention of a Palestinian young man called Mohamed Asaad for two more weeks on the charge of participation in marches organized in the town in protest at the demolition of a Palestinian home last week.