Continuous violations and penalties against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons

August 20, 2024

🔴 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated that the occupation authorities use excessive force and torture against Palestinians during arrest, and that the international and humanitarian organizations failed to provide protection for them.
- The Commission documented the extent of violations practiced against detainees in Israeli prisons, through a visitation managed to Ofer prison, in terms of ill-treatment, poor food, lack of medical care and many other penalties.

🔴 The Commission discloses the inhumane conditions experienced by women detainees held in Damoun prison, which are imposed on them in accordance with the escalation policy began last October.
- the commission stated that 84 women are held in narrow sections, with high temperature and humidity.

🔴 The commission confirmed that the majority of detainees have lost weight during the past ten months, where each detainee lost 20 kgs at least, due to the continuous policy of starvation.
- cases in point:
Detainees Abdulsamad Ishtaya, Bajes Barghouthi, Ahmad Jarabaa, and Muhammad Dar Aldeek, where all of them have been subjected to torture, intense beat and medical neglect.

Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since the beginning of the genocide

Excluding arrest cases in Gaza

August 12, 2024

The total number of arrests stands at (10.000) in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (345) including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank.
. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (700)
. Journalists: (94) journalists have been arrested, (53) of them are still under arrest, including (5) female journalists and (16) journalists from Gaza, in addition to (17) journalists under the administrative detention.

More than (8322) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.

Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin.

Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.
Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.
(22) detainees martyred in Israeli prisons and military camps since the 7th of October, in addition to tens martyrs from Gaza who died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, whom the occupation has not announced their names or martyrdom conditions. Moreover, they acknowledged the execution of many detainees.

It is said that the corpses of (20) detainees who martyred after October 7 are still withheld, among (31) martyrs.

Data does not include detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of enforced disappearance against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested about (4000) citizens from Gaza, in addition to hundreds Gazans who have been arrested in the West Bank.

The total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons stands at(9900), including (3432) administrative detainees, in addition to (1584) detainees who have been classified as illegal fighters.

.(83) female detainees are held in Damoun prison, including a pregnant detainee (Jehad Nakhleh) in addition to (20) administrative detainees.

. (250) children are currently held in isolation prisons

Note: data on detention campaigns is variable on a daily basis due to the continuous arrests

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Addameer Association for Human Rights )

Persistence in the policy of escalation and deprivation against detainees in occupation prisons

August 7, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated that 9000 detainees are currently held in the Israeli occupation prisons, facing unprecedented abusive and vindictive measures since months, and subjected to all forms of torture and systematic violence that has turned their lives into hell.

The Commission documented, through lawyers’ visits to Itzion and Megiddo prisons, several practices and criminal breaches implemented against detainees, in an attempt to destroy detainees’ morales, which violates all international agreements and conventions.

The Commission pointed out that sanctions against detainees held in Itzion and Megiddo prisoners, applied to all prisons, are represented in the closure of sections in all prisons, confiscation of electrical appliances, water and power cut off, lack of blankets and clothes, poor food in quantity and quality. Moreover, the IPS intended to cancel lawyers’ visits under the claim of the presence of a state of emergency.
Detainees complained about storming their sections, the high temperature and lack of fans. All these measures created difficult conditions for detainees, as they are held in overcrowded rooms and do not have clean supplies. Furthermore, they are not allowed to bathe on a regular basis, which led to the spread of dermatologic diseases.

The Commission called on international human rights organizations to take their necessary role, in the light of the escalation in crimes against detainees in Israeli prisons.

Latest updates on detainees’ conditions

August 18, 2024

🔴 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated that section “24” in Ofer prison was emptied and several administrative detainees have been transferred to other prisons, where all detainees have been subjected to torture and beat many times. Some of them stated that they were severely beaten during their way to visitation room.
- the lawyer confirmed that the general conditions in the prison are still difficult and complicated, where they are provided with water for 45 minutes, electricity is cut off from 10:00 p.m and the provided food is poor in quantity and quality.
🔴 The lawyer of the commission stated that detainee Mahmoud Haj, 22, from Bait Seera/ Ramallah, was exposed to brutal attack by jailers and investigators in Almaskoubya detention center, claiming that he attacked a jailer.
- the detainee has been undergoing continuous interrogation since his arrest on July 8, under allegations of weapons possession and involvement in a shooting near his town, where he completely denies the accusations.
- Detainee explained, “The interrogator came close to my face and started to shout. I turned my head, and his face accidentally hit my nose. Then, a group of interrogators arrived, dragged me out of the interrogation room , and began to beat me on my back and body. I was transferred to the prison’s clinic and then to a detention room, where i remained shackled and deprived of food and water for 40 hours.

🔴 The lawyer of the commission visited detainee Mazen Qadi, 44, from Albirah, who is detained since 2002, sentenced to life imprisonment and held in the isolation of Remonim prison.
- the detainee confirmed that he received bad treatment after transferring him from Alramla isolation to Remonim isolation, where he was handcuffed and forced to sit on his knees.
- he complained about the poor food and lack of clothes, where each detainee have is allowed to bathe for 15 minutes, with little amount of shampoo.
- he pointed out that the transfer process includes brutal attacks, represented in storming the sections accidentally, using sound bombs and pepper gas and many other forms of violations such as beating and threatening.

Detainees held in Jelboa and Megiddo prisons suffer from the policy of blackmail carried out by the prisons’ administration

August 10, 2024

🔴 The Commission confirmed that the detainees’ daily needs, represented in the basic rights such as food, clothes and medical care, have become difficult to obtain. Thus, the policy of starvation has weakened their bodies, and the lack of clothes and hygiene materials besides the high temperature and the overcrowding has created unhealthy environment.

🔴 The lawyer of the commission visited detainee Ahmad Syajat, from Jenin, who is detained since 2021. He was subjected to fierce torture in the past few months, which led to loss of his upper and lower teeth, where he became unable to eat and lost 20 kgs, besides, he did not receive any medical treatment.

🔴 The lawyer also visited detainee Rami Hsais from Jenin, detained since a year. He suffers from a complicated dermatologic disease, in addition to severe pain in his back. He wasn’t allowed to go to the hospital, and he lost 20 kgs.

🔴 The commission confirmed that the administration of Megiddo prison has intensified the acts of intimidation and threats against detainees during the lawyers’ visit, in order to prevent them from narrating the bad conditions imposed on them.

🔴 The lawyer stated that she managed to visit a detainee held in Megiddo prison, who looked tired and exhausted due to the intimidation policy and the bad treatment he received before the visit. The police officers subordinated to the prison’s administration were present near the detainee during their conversation, repeatedly instructing him to raise his voice so they could hear what he was saying.

🔴 The lawyer confirmed that the general conditions in Megiddo prison remain unchanged, as the food is poor, detainees sleep hungry, they are ill treated and exposed to intense beat, assaults, medical neglect, lack in clothes and blankets and exposed to other sanitations, deprivation and other abusive measures that were imposed on them since October 7.

Latest updates on Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons

🔴 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs mourns the martyr and former detainee Tareq Dawood
- The Commission stated that former detainee Tareq Dawood, 18, from Qalqilia, was assassinated yesterday.
- He spent a year in Israeli prisons and was released by an exchange deal on November 2023.

🔴 The Commission emphasized that the injured detainee Yaqoub Hawareen is currently held in Shaare Zedek Hospital under respirators and anesthesia
- the lawyer of the commission, Karim Ajwa, managed to visit Hawareen, who was shot by the occupation soldiers, arrested and transferred to Shaare Zedek Hospital
- Hawareen had several gunshots in the lower part of his body. He had a surgery and kept under respirators
- The lawyer confirmed that the military court in Ofer prison will hold a hearing next Monday to extend his detention, which will take place in absentia without his presence.

🔴 The lawyer of the commission managed to visit detainee Luai Dawood, 50, from Qalqilia, held in Remon prison.
- He confirmed on the brutal daily harassments of the jailers, which lack any sense of humanity or morality.
- The lawyer thought that he was blind when he came to the visitation room, but he explained that he suffered from (Retinitis Pigmentosa), in addition to high blood pressure, diabetes, hernia, and prostate inflammation.
- He confirmed that his health has deteriorated since his arrest, due to medical neglect by the prison’s administration, as well as the deprivation of basic human rights, such as having medication and proper food.