Harsher terms for juvenial demonstrators

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 10 (UPI) -- Prison Service officials have decided to move teens who fought the Gaza withdrawal from the Maasiyahu low-security prison to a jail for juvenile delinquents.

Most of the detainees arrested during demonstrations against next month's withdrawal from Gaza allegedly blocked traffic. They were held in special units for disengagement protesters.

The change is a reaction to "provocations" officials allegedly engineered, Yediot Aharonot's Web site Ynet said.

The "provocations" included graffiti on prison property comparing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Adolph Hitler, and pouring tap water all over their cells and around the prison yard "to waste public money and hurt the country's economy."

The prisoners reportedly blocked entrances to their cells with furniture and went on a two-day hunger strike.

"In Ofek (the new prison) their conditions will be harder," a Prisons' Authority source told Ynet.