Additional restrictions and escalations against detainees in Ofer Prison 

 

 November 14, 2023 

 

 The Israeli authorities pursued the policy of torture and assault against our detainees since the beginning of the war, represented in isolating detainees, preventing phone calls and preventing family and lawyers visits in order to be able to violate their rights. For example, the Israeli special forces implemented an incursion to detainees rooms in 26/10/2023, and attacked them with intense beat, sound bombs and rubber bullets, leaving them bleeding without any medical assistance. 

 

 This attack was carried out under the pretext of bidding farewell to their colleague who was going to be released. In the same context, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs demonstrated in a report issued today, a series of penalties carried out against detainees:

 

 1. Prevent phone calls with families 

 2. IPS prevents lawyers from visiting detainees since the beginning of the war on Gaza 

3. Prevent family visits 

 4. Confiscate electric appliances from section 5. Prevent using canteen 

6. Confiscate food items from sections 

7. Provide insufficient quantity of food  

8. Separate minors from elderly detainees 

 9. Implement provocative inspections to detainees rooms 

10. Turn detainees rooms into cells 

 11. The clinic of Alramla prison does not provide any medical services or medicines, and only provides painkillers to detainees each ten days.

🔺Issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club

 

 

 The Israeli authorities arrested (65) Palestinians from the West Bank last night, including the wife of a detainee and a mother of a detainee from Nablus, a girl from Dura/ Hebron and two journalists.

 

 Arrests were focused in Bethlehem and Hebron, and the rest were distributed to Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqila, Jerusalem and Tubas. 

 

 Detention operations were accompanied by torture, abuse, insensitive beat, threats and house destruction. 

 

Moreover, the Israeli authorities exploded the house of the child detainee Mohammad Zalbani from Shufat capm/ Jerusalem, where he is detained since February 2023. (2280) arrest cases have been recorded since October 7, where this data includes those who have been arrested from their homes, on military checkpoints and others who surrendered themselves. 

 

 The massive arrest campaign came within the mass aggressive against our people and the continuous genocide in Gaza.

 * data included detainees who still under arrest and released detainees.

Brief on arrest campaigns implemented by the Israeli authorities 

 

 Issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club 

 

 Ramallah

 

 November 13, 2023 

 

 The Israeli authorities arrested (50) Palestinians from the West Bank last night including former detainees, injured person and 9 Gazans who have been arrested from Hebron. 

 

 The commission and the prisoner’s club said arrests were concentrated in Hebron, Ramallah and Jerusalem, and the rest distributed to Jericho, Nablus, Qalqilia and Jenin. Detention operations were accompanied by torture, abuse, insensitive beat, threats and house destruction to detainees and their families.

 

 (2520) arrest cases have been recorded since October 7, where this data includes those who have been arrested from their homes, on military checkpoints and others who surrendered themselves.

 

 The massive arrest campaign came within the mass aggressive against our people and the continuous genocide in Gaza. 

 

 * data included detainees who still under arrest and released detainees.

🔺Issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club 

 

 The Israeli authorities mounted an arrest campaign afflicting (55) citizens from the West Bank

 

 * (2200) arrest cases have been recorded since October 7 

 

 November 7, 2023 

 

 The Israeli authorities mounted a new campaign of arrests in the West Bank afflicting (55) Palestinians , including the former detainee Ruba Assi and two journalists, in the light of the mass aggression and systematic detention operations against our people. 

 

 Arrests were focused in Hebron and Ramallah. The number of arrests since the 7th of October stands at (2200) where these figures do not include Gazan workers. 

 

 Arrests afflicted all categories of the Palestinian community, including children, women,elderly persons and former detainees who served long years in Israeli prisons. 

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club confirmed that the Israeli authorities have carried out systematic assassination operations deliberately, represented in the martyrdom of 4 detainees who got arrested after the 7th of October, due to torture which afflicted them besides to thousands of workers who have been arrested. Martyrs are Arafat Hamdan, Omar Daraghmeh, Majid Zaqqul and another Gazan worker , whose identity is not known yet. 

 

 (7000) detainees are currently held in Israeli prisons , including (62) women and (2070) administrative detainees.

Brief on arrest campaigns implemented by the Israeli authorities 

 

 Issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club Ramallah November 12, 2023 The Israeli authorities arrested (40) Palestinians from the West Bank last night including two minors. 

 

 Moreover, the Israeli authorities executed the former detainee Muntaser Muhammad Saif, 34, from Burqa/ Nablus, after shooting and arresting him. He served 17 years in prison and was released on February 2023. 

 

 The commission and the prisoner’s club said arrests were concentrated in Hebron with (20) cases, and the rest distributed to Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Tulkarem and Jenin. Detention operations were accompanied by torture, abuse, insensitive beat, threats and house destruction to detainees and their families. 

 

 (2470) arrest cases have been recorded since October 7, where this data includes those who have been arrested from their homes, on military checkpoints and others who surrendered themselves. The massive arrest campaign came within the mass aggressive against our people and the continuous genocide in Gaza.

 

 * data included detainees who still under arrest and released detainees.

🔺 Brief on arrest campaigns implemented by the Israeli authorities 

 

 🔺Issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club 

 

 Ramallah 

 November 9, 2023 

 

 The Israeli authorities arrested (29) Palestinians from the West Bank last today, including a woman from Tubas, in addition to tens of workers who has been arrested from Bartaa village located in the lands occupied in 1948. 

 

 Arrests were focused in Jerusalem and Tubas, where the rest were distributed to Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus and Hebron. 

 

 Detention operations were accompanied by torture, abuse, insensitive beat, threats and house destruction to detainees and their families. 

 

 (2300) arrest cases have been recorded since October 7, where this data includes those who have been arrested from their homes, on military checkpoints and others who surrendered themselves. 

 

 The massive arrest campaign came within the mass aggressive against our people and the continuous genocide in Gaza.

 

 * data included detainees who still under arrest and released detainees.

 🔺 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club confirmed the martyrdom of the detainee Majed Ahmad Zaqqul from Gaza in Ofer prison  

 

November 6

 

The Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club confirmed the martyrdom of the detainee Majed Zaqqul , 32, from Gaza in Ofer prison. 

 

He is one of the workers that have been arrested after October 7 , where the Israeli authorities hide the news of his assassination during the past few days, until they announced the news through their media.

 

 The martyr Zaqqul has moved to the West Bank three years ago and he was suffering from cancer. He was working in the lands occupied in 1948 since 6 months. He’s married and has a child, and his family lives in Gaza. 

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club reported in a joint statement, that the Israeli authorities have assassinated him without announcing the news immediately, but delayed the news of his martyrdom for two days, where they announced that two detainees have died, the first in Ofer prison and the other one in Atnaout military camp, without revealing their names. We could not be able to know the identity of the second martyr till now. 

 

 Accord to the terrible testimonies of Gazan workers who were released to Gaza, they confirmed that the martyr Zaqqul was subjected to a systematic assassination, such as the detainee Omar Daraghmeh and Arafat Hamdan, who martyred last month in Israeli prisons due to torture.

 

 It is worth mentioning that the Israeli authorities still pursuing arrest campaigns against Gazan workers, and refused to give any information about their figures, identities, the places in which they are held ir their health conditions, in spite of the constant demands of detainees’ institutions to obtain accurate information about them.

 

 With the martyrdom of the detainee Zaqqul, the number of the martyrs of the Captive Movement rises to (240) since 1967.