21.   Thirty inmates and two soldiers died in prison clashes last December as security forces transferred inmates to the new prisons.

22.   Violent clashes broke out in December, when security forces began transferring inmates to the new prisons.

23.   But a spokesman for the Israeli prison service said that the inmates had been transferred to other prisons simply to be nearer their families.

24.   Robben Island will cease to be used as a prison later this year, when all remaining inmates will be transferred.