Boy tries to smuggle phones to terrorist father in prison

The Prisons Service officers foiled an attempt to smuggle SIM cards and cellphones to a terrorist jailed in Ketziot Prison, 75 km. southwest of Beersheba, using the prisoner’s five-yearold son as an intermediary.

Officers noticed the boy moving suspiciously during a family visit to the prison.

A search of the child’s body revealed that he held ten small, homemade cell phones and three SIM cards in his underwear.

The prisoner, a resident of Yatta, near Hebron, is serving 12 years in prison for plotting to manufacture explosives and murder innocents.

The prisoner was isolated and an investigation has been opened.

Last month, indictments were filed against five people who worked to transfer cellphones, chargers, earphones, and other items to a jailed terrorist.

The Prisons Service did not immediately respond to a Jerusalem Post request for comment.