Israeli occupation responsible for lives of Palestinian detainees in Ofer Prison

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
16/2/25

Ramallah, Palestine – Following a large-scale assault on Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel’s notorious Ofer Prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the lives of the thousands of detainees held there.

The occupation’s prison administration said in a statement moments ago that their prison special repression units raided the cells of Palestinian detainees in Ofer, claiming that the detainees “disrupted” a “military tour of the prison” (from inside their cells). Such raids are known to be violent, oppressive and humiliating for the detainees.

The Commission and the PPS appeal to the mediators to put the issue of the severe crimes taking place against Palestinian prisoners, on the negotiating table. The systematic killing, torture, medical negligence, enforced starvation, severe beatings and the many other crimes being committed must be stopped. Since the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, at least 58 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by Israeli prison guards.

We direct an urgent appeal to the international human rights system to fulfill the responsibilities for which it was created in the first place.

There are more than 10,000 Palestinians still held in the occupation’s custody. This figure does not include all those arrested from Gaza and have been forcibly disappeared.