A joint report by the governmental Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club provides testimonies from the prisons, confirming that prisoners were subjected to mistreatment and beatings as part of a growing policy of collective punishment since the beginning of the current war of extermination.
The United Nations has denounced normalization of the sexual abuse of Palestinian abductees by Israeli forces following several reports of rape in Israeli jails.
However, this only happened after he was taken from the prison straight to the Maskoubiyeh detention centre by occupation intelligence agents, explained Amjad Abu Asab, head of the Family Committee of the Jerusalemite Prisoners. He was later released under specific conditions.
On 31 July, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, issued a report stating that since 7 October, many Palestinians have been detained in secret locations, and illegal practices have been carried out against them, amounting to torture.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed concerns over the continuation of brutal behaviors against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails calling for an urgent probe into the violations committed against Palestinians while in Israeli custody.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has declared August 3 as the international day to support the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails demanding for global support for Gazans.
The lawyer, who recently visited Ofer Prison, southwest of Ramallah, reported seven suicide attempts by detainees due to the dire conditions, brutal treatment by guards, and the use of hunger and medical neglect as forms of collective punishment. The detainees are subjected to beatings during arrest and in prison, especially if they are late for roll ...
The Gaza Ministry of Detainees has slammed the death in Israeli jail of a Hamas resistance leader saying the Israeli authorities have subjected him to torture and medical negligence while in their custody.
The movement added in a press release on Monday that the prisoners have given horrifying testimonies about the tragic conditions endured by those abducted from the Gaza Strip and held in detention centres, including doctors, the elderly, the sick and the wounded. They are subjected to the most appalling practices and crimes, including torture, starvation ...
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for holding Israeli leaders accountable for torture of Palestinian prisoners in the regime’s jails.
The Office said another: “54 detainees from various Palestinian regions have died in Israeli prisons due to torture and inhumane detention conditions, amid systematic assaults on prisoners since the beginning of the genocidal war.”
PPS said in a press statement that there are currently 9,300 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centres, including approximately 250 child prisoners and 75 female prisoners.
A new investigation by the New York Times has revealed that Israeli regime is carrying out a systematic system of torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners in the army base of Sde Teiman.
The Hamas resistance movement says to end the sufferings of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails was an objective behind the October 7 unprecedented strike against the occupied lands.
The movement issued a statement responding to a previous statement issued by the US and 17 other countries demanding Hamas’s: “Immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza for over 200 days.”
A former Palestinian prisoner has described the situation in Israeli jails as ‘harsher’ than the conditions in notorious US-run Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.