Human rights groups condemn ‘vicious’ Israeli plan to create ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for Palestinian prisoners
- Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s plans to build a crocodile-filled moat around a prison holding Palestinian detainees as “vicious” and “nonsensical”.
- Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is seeking to introduce the reptiles at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel in a move directly inspired by Alligator Alcatraz, the US immigration detention facility which closed in June.
- Last week, a source in Ben-Gvir’s office confirmed that digging was already underway at the maximum-security prison after the Israeli government reclassified the Nile crocodile as a “tended wild animal”
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- Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s plans to build a crocodile-filled moat around a prison holding Palestinian detainees as “vicious” and “nonsensical”.
- Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is seeking to introduce the reptiles at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel in a move directly inspired by Alligator Alcatraz, the US immigration detention facility which closed in June.
- Last week, a source in Ben-Gvir’s office confirmed that digging was already underway at the maximum-security prison after the Israeli government reclassified the Nile crocodile as a “tended wild animal”
Sources: The Independent