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Detainees in Ofer and Jelboa prisons are exposed to additional restrictions and retaliatory punishments

January 23, 2024

🔺The Israeli authorities escalated its assault and torture against Palestinian detainees since the beginning of war and Genocide in Gaza Strip, which are represented in isolating detainees from the outside world, cutting off communications and preventing family and lawyers visits.

* case in point:

🔺Detainee Majd Sharabati was arrested after breaking into his house by the Israeli soldiers, where they blindfolded and handcuffed him and transferred him to an interrogation center , beating him severely along the way. He is now held in section 11 in Ofer prison.

🔺With regard to punitive measures against detainees in Ofer prison, they are exposed to deliberate medical ignorance and deprived of their medication. In addition, the IPS intended to create an overcrowded environment in prison where they hold a high number of detainees in the same room, which forced some of them to sleep on the floor. Moreover, detainees are provided with poor quality and quantity of food and they are prevented from getting to the prison’s courtyard.

🔺Detainee Tamer Alhaj, 29, from Nablus was also subjected to retaliatory measures, as he was kept handcuffed all the time during interrogation. His lawyer asked the officer to untie the cuffs because it is an illegal procedure but he refused. He is currently held at Jelboa Prison.