The Prisons Service is prepared to accommodate the arrests of
900 people during the Disengagement process, 500 at
Maassiyahu Jail and 400 at Dekel, according to a report by
Prisons Service Commissioner Commander Yaakov Ganot.
If necessary, he says, the Prisons Service can clear
facilities where foreign workers are being held and during
the Disengagement Immigration Police will not make any
arrests of foreigners staying illegally.
Ganot also says the Prisons Service is prepared for the
arrest of people of all types and segments of the population,
including women and youths, and has taken the steps needed to
accommodate them socially, religiously and in terms of
personal welfare.
In coordination with the police, four special court
facilities have been set up to handle the arrested evacuees,
if necessary, from the time of arrest until their
confinement.
Minister of Internal Security Gidon Ezra said that every
instance of disturbing the peace, such as resistance to the
Disengagement or attempts to enter Gush Katif illegally, will
be handled with severity. "We will not hesitate to use any
means, including arrest, to avoid free passage and entry to
Gush Katif," Ezra said.
In the event both parents are arrested, he added, the police
will not separate them from their children and send them to
an adoptive family but will have the children join their
parents under custody.
