The Palestinian Authority for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs said on Sunday that the Israeli occupation forces have turned their prisons into “living cemeteries” with the escalation of attacks on prisoners since the attack of last October 7.
The authority added – in a statement – that “the pace of attacks on prisoners has taken an escalating trend since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip GazaIt coincided with a major blackout by the prison administration in order not to expose the crimes it was committing.
The authority affiliated with…Palestine’s libiration organisation Israel “prevents visits from family and lawyers, and has completely cut off prisoners from the outside world.” She pointed out that “six prisoners were killed in prisons since the seventh of last October as a result of severe torture.”
The Commission added that “the sections (in prisons) are subjected to almost daily raids, during which soldiers assault prisoners with severe beatings with batons, guns, gas, and rubber bullets.”
She added that the occupation soldiers deliberately beat the detainees “violently, deliberately neglect their injuries, and intentionally leave them without treatment.”
“He will be beaten and die.”
She said, “If a prisoner asks for a doctor, the soldiers’ immediate response will be: Whoever asks to leave the department for treatment will be beaten and will die.”
The Commission stressed that the prisoners are subjected to many types of punishments, most notably “the lack of aluminum windows on the windows, as the prisoners suffer from the extreme cold, and a shortage of blankets and food.”
She said, “A large number of prisoners are sleeping on the floor, and are not allowed to go out to the recess, and all electrical appliances, personal belongings, and clothes were taken from them.”
Israel detains about 7,800 Palestinians in its prisons, according to official Palestinian data.
The arrests escalated as a result of a devastating war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which left more than 15,000 martyrs and 40,000 wounded, in addition to massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to official Palestinian and UN sources.
