Israel Prison Authority (IPA) personnel on Thursday morning prevented the smuggling of cell phones and SIM cards to terrorists imprisoned in Israel’s Ketziot Prison. The phones and SIM cards were hidden in the bumper area of a truck.
A civilian truck bringing food to the prison arrived at Ketziot Prison on Thursday morning. Guards performed a required inspection of the arriving truck, and for reasons that were not detailed, decided to scrutinize the vehicle. They found cell phones and SIM cards hidden in the bumper area of the truck, which were intended for imprisoned terrorists.
Guards found eight smartphones and dozens of SIM cards hidden in the truck. The driver was handed over to police for questioning.
The prison’s commander, Avichai Ben-Chamu explained, “Prison guards constantly confront the threat of smuggling phones and illicit equipment into prison in sophisticated ways by prisoners and others. It is important to emphasize that cellphones are used as terrorists’ agents to direct acts of terror from prison. We will continue using all means at our disposal to combat all smuggling attempts.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Maybe I’ve read too many books, but I would consider handling this differently. I would replace the sim cards with decoys that would track the senders, and not allow the calls to complete. I would then put those senders into solitary, where they could not get hold of a phone at all, and would bomb to smithereens the ones they called. Otherwise, there will be a persistent problem with detecting this contraband, and keeping the staff on overtime. Terrorists are undeserving of life or any form of support. It’s hard enough to convince me that they should be kept in Israeli prisons when they do not deserve the opportunity to breathe. But once they use their confinement as a launching pad to commit more terror, their corpses should be fed immediately to some hungry carnivores.
Any liberal Democrats wanna challenge me on this?