Palestinian Prisoners’ Association: The occupation turns detention centers into cemeteries for the living

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority said that the pace of attacks on detainees inside Israeli occupation prisons has been on an escalating curve since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, in light of a severe blackout by the prison administration.

– Isolating and preventing visits

The Prisoners’ Authority explained, in a press statement, that the occupation prison administration prevents visits from family and lawyers, and completely isolates the detainees from the outside world. During the same period, 6 detainees were martyred as a result of severe torture, and the departments were subjected to almost daily raids, during which soldiers assaulted and beat the detainees. They were brutalized with batons, rifles, gas, and rubber bullets, causing them to suffer bruises, bruises, and deep wounds, in addition to fractures in their hands and legs.

She pointed out that during the arrest and raid operations, the occupation soldiers deliberately broke down the homes of the detainees and beat them violently from the moment of arrest until the investigation and the end of imprisonment. This included insults, threats, and deliberate neglect of their injuries and health conditions, leaving them without treatment. If a prisoner requested a doctor, the response would be Immediately from the soldiers: “Whoever asks to leave the department for treatment will be beaten and die, as happened with the martyrs of the prisoner movement who were martyred during the war while in captivity.”

– A number of racist allegations

The Commission reviewed a number of racist punishments and restrictions to which detainees are subjected, the most important of which are: the absence of aluminum windows on the windows, as the prisoners suffer from the extreme cold, and the available covers are very light and do not protect them from the cold. The detainees tried to close the windows with cardboard, but every time they tried to do so, they were killed. They raid the room, punish them, and assault them.

She added that the food is very poor in quantity and quality, and is cold and smells bad. The quantity provided to 12 detainees is only enough for four, and the detainees are not allowed to go out to the camp. The occupation has withdrawn all electrical appliances, personal items, and clothes, and the prisoner remains in one spare change at all times.

She confirmed that a large number of detainees sleep on the floor, due to the lack of sufficient beds and the high number of detainees in the sections to at least three times the normal number, while the duration of showering does not exceed 10 minutes a day with cold water, and the “canteen” is completely closed.

The Commission stated that this fierce attack on detainees coincides with the absence of the role of human rights and humanitarian institutions in providing the slightest protection and follow-up of their conditions and rights, which are clearly violated on a daily basis and the policy of slow killing is practiced against them.