Women detainees from Gaza are subjected to retaliatory penalties 

 

 December 17, 2023 

 

 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in a report issued today that women detainees at Damoun prison, especially Gazans, are facing very difficult detention conditions and subjected to strict punishments since the beginning of the war. 

 

 The commission said that the Israeli forces mounted a massive campaign of arrests in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip against women, whom all of them were subjected to torture and assault, beating, cursing, naked inspection , isolation and deprivation of rights. 

 

 The IPS tended to treat detainees from Gaza with the most degrading manner, as a detainee stated “80-year- old woman from Gaza arrived to the section, walking with crutches, not wearing a hijab, it seems like she suffers from Alzeimers.

 

 They took the clothes of women detainees from Gaza , exchanging them with summer outfits, where they suffered from difficult times before arriving at Damoun prison, as they have been subjected to intense beat, humiliation and attacks. Some of them remained 7 days outside the prison in the cold weather. A Gazan detainee said that she was accompanied with her four children during arrest, and she gave them to a stranger man and left without knowing anything about them”. 

 

 The IPS intended to isolate women detainees from Gaza, so they can commit crimes against them without being held accountable.