Ramallah: the occupation forces arrested (569) Palestinians from the occupied territories in February 2019, including (78) minors and (13) females.
Detainees' institutions and Human Rights Organizations (the Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Al Dameer Association for Human Rights) pointed out in a fact sheet that the occupation authorities have arrested (229) citizens from Jerusalem, (73) from Ramllah and Al-Bireh, (60) from Hebron, (54) from Jenin, (44) from Bethlehem, (38) from Nablus, (15) from Tulkarem, (15) from Qalqilia, (9) from Tubas, (5) from Salfit, (10) from Jericho and (17) from Gaza Strip.
The most prominent policies practiced by occupation authorities against detainees in February:
Aggravated policies against detainees in Negev prison
Institutions observed a series of escalations by the occupation authorities and the Israeli prison Services that aimed to clampdown on the lives of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. Those escalations caused a state of tension that may increase and lead to unstable conditions in jails.
The wave of escalation started mid-February in Negev prison. At the beginning of the month, Negev prison administration informed the detainees about its intention to install jamming devices in section (4).
In February 15, the prison's administration emptied section (4) and installed the jammers. In February 18, the administration informed the detainees that it will operate the jammers at 10:00 am next morning. However, this notification came in spite of the negotiations with detainees that the jammers would not be operated. In response, the detainees informed the administration of the prison that they are willing to dissolve the factions and there will not be a representative of detainees to discuss matters with the administration, or take the responsibility of any action by the detainees. This action obliges the administration to deal with detainees individually, thereby keeping the prison administration in a permanent state of emergency.
This was the first step of protest which was followed by returning the meals by many sections, running at night in the prison's yard, and refusing to get inside their cells. However, the prison's administration responded by announcing the state of permanent emergency, doubling the numbers of forces and carrying out violent inspections in section (3&4).
The repression forces attacked detainees by beating them. In the same context, the detainees Ibrahim Natsheh and Fawzi Awwad burned their clothes, and then they were taken to solitary confinement, in addition to the detainee Saleh Ja'bari who also taken to solitary confinement after two days.
The escalations came after commencing the work of the committee formed by the Minister of Interior Security, Jel'ad Ardan, which aims to clampdown on the life conditions of detainees. The acts of the committee came in the context of the approaching Israeli elections, and in particular, the campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who is using the Palestinian detainees as electoral propaganda.


Spoiled food served for detainees
Monitoring reports pointed out that the administration of prison is deliberately provide bad food in terms of quantity and quality for detainees in prisons and detention centers, where the food served does not conform to international laws and health standards, which force detainees to buy their stuff from the cantina on their own expenses.
Detainees' institutions revealed during last February that the suffering increases in detention centers, especially (Itzion, Huwara and Al- Jalama), where those detention centers do not contain a cantina, thus, detainees are forced to eat the bad meals of prison.