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Incarceration facility (Israel)

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As of 2006, all three incarceration facilities are operational and are subordinate to the IPS, while the two remaining detention facilities (Shomron and Etzion) are controlled by the
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and is therefore the closest location to where most of the prisoners in question are detained. Ofer Prison can contain up to 800 prisoners.
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detainees for a short period before they are sorted and moved to an incarceration facility run by the Israel Prison Service.
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located in the Negev desert. It is the largest of a planned four camps with its total capacity of 8000 inmates.
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The need for detention centers to hold large numbers of Palestinian detainees in Israel arose during the
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built and expanded several such facilities adjacent to existing infrastructures at
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Menashe (Salem) Facility - operational from 2002 to 2006
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In addition, there are several "suspension" facilities (
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Buildings and structures in Southern District (Israel)
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There are currently three incarceration facilities:
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Hebrew
Israel Defense Forces
Israel Prison Service
Israel
Palestinian prisoners
administrative detention
Hebrew
IDF
Military Police Corps
Palestinian
First Intifada
IDF
Megiddo
Camp Ktzi'ot
Nitzana
Ofer
Gaza Strip
Erez Crossing
Etzion
Oslo Accords
Al-Aqsa Intifada
Operation Defensive Shield
IDF
IDF
Ktzi'ot Prison
Nitzana
border crossing
Egypt
Megiddo Prison
Ofer Prison

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