The horrifying moment a Hamas prisoner pulls a screwdriver out of his sock when a Israeli prison guard turns his back and then viciously stabs him

  • Israeli prison guard is violently attacked with a screwdriver by a Hamas prisoner
  • CCTV footage shows the prisoner's forceful attempt at escaping Nafha prison
  • He hides a screwdriver in his sock and is able to catch the guard off balance
  • The inmate begins stabbing the security guard, who sustained minor injuries

A Hamas prisoner in Israel has brutally attacked a prison guard with a screwdriver.

CCTV footage from inside Nafha, a prison near the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, shows an unnamed inmate attacking the guard, who also was not named.

The video shows the guard turning his back from the prisoner, standing only a few feet away, to open a door. 

While the guard is doing this, the prisoner appears to slip a screwdriver from out of his sock and then run over to the guard and violently stab him.

The guard reacts quickly, managing to protect his body.

The inmate is seen running off but is said to have been restrained shortly afterwards, with the guard reported to have sustained only minor injuries.   

Palestine media have said that the prisoner, whose original offence was not reported, had been given an additional two years for his attack on the guard. He was said to be at the start of a two-year sentence. ahead of the incursion.

It is believed that the prisoner was from Hamas - a fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic organisation that is in charge of the Gaza Strip.

The organisation's militant wing is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the European Union and the United States.

Palestinians have accused Israel of mishandling its prisoners and medical neglect of them.

The prisoner catches the guard off balance and begins attacking him with the screwdriver he hid in his sock, pictured 

The prisoner catches the guard off balance and begins attacking him with the screwdriver he hid in his sock, pictured 

The guard is shocked but begins to deescalate the situation and attempts to get the screwdriver from the prisoner, pictured

The guard is shocked but begins to deescalate the situation and attempts to get the screwdriver from the prisoner, pictured

The prisoner, said to be from Hamas, is much bigger than the guard and seems to have the advantage in the violent battle that ensued, pictured

The prisoner, said to be from Hamas, is much bigger than the guard and seems to have the advantage in the violent battle that ensued, pictured

The prisoner is seen making a run to escape, pictured, but is said to have been later restrained by another guard

The prisoner is seen making a run to escape, pictured, but is said to have been later restrained by another guard