been opened in the Negev desert. Three weeks later the Palestinian Human Rights group al-Haq quoted a Gaza lawyer, Raji Surani, as describing conditions in the camp as "harsh and inhuman". In July 1989 the Israeli newspaper Davar reported that 4,275 prisoners were being held at Ktzi'ot. Most of the 4,215 Administrative detention prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza Strip were being held there. All prisoners were living in 24-man tents. Prisoners and lawyers reported absence of privacy during meetings and that newspapers were being censored. There was a list of 26 permitted books. According to the army, as of June 1989, six prisoners had been killed by fellow inmates accused of collaborating or 'immoral activity'. Conditions in 1991 Members of Human Rights Watch (HRW) visited the camp in August 1990. It was under the command of Colonel Ze'ev Shaltiel and held 6,216 prisoners. The camp was divided into sections. Each section contained two or more tents and was surrounded by ridges of sand and gravel blocking visibility between sections. The tents, each 50 square meters in size, contained 20–30 men each. Prisoners were confined to the tents for most of the day with three daily counts. In addition, there was a section surrounded by 3-meter walls and divided into subsections covered in steel netting. There was also a building containing four 3x3 meter punishment cells which, at the time of the HRW visit contained 23 prisoners. The HRW report concluded that the camp was "in clear violation of the IV Geneva Convention forbidding the transfer of incarcerated persons from occupied territories to the territory of the occupying power." It also found that: Access between lawyers and their clients was very restricted. Meetings took place in the open across a double fence. No documents were allowed to be exchanged. A maximum of 20 lawyers were allowed daily, each lawyer restricted to meeting 15–20 prisoners. Meetings were limited to 15 minutes. Prisoners in tents were exposed to extreme weather conditions. There were no family visits. Mail was backlogged and heavily censored. The camp had only four censors. Few books were allowed into the camp. Rejected books included The Lord of the Rings, Hamlet, The Cancer Ward, a biography of Tolstoy and a book on constitutional law in Hebrew. Group sports were prohibited. The report recorded a number of violent incidents. A few weeks before their visit deputy commander, Major Avi