More than 500 new detainees in the West Bank and Jerusalem since October 7, 2023

The Israeli occupation launches a fierce campaign of arrests against Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem October 15, 2023 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs condemned the fierce campaign of arrests launched by the Israeli authorities today’s morning against the Palestinians in all ceties. The Commission stated the campaign of arrests affected 60 persons, who were subjected to attack, beat, tear gas, sound bombs, rubber bullets and live ammunition. The Commission pointed out that arrests exceeded 500 persons in addition to tens of arrests the southern governorates, where there is no confirmed figures due to the Israeli blackout, and preventing lawyers from visiting them in prisons. The Commission confirmed that the barbaric arrest campaign against Palestinians is part of the policy of collective punishment. The Commission warned of the continuation of this procedure in chasing and arresting our people to cover the security and political failure and the chaos lived by Israelis.

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs reveals the difficult and harsh conditions in which the isolated detainee Marah Bakeer lives 

 

 

 The commission of Detainees’ Affairs reported today’s evening that the Israeli Prison Service continued to isolate the women detainees representative Marah Bakeer, 23, from Jerusalem, where she was moved recently to the isolation of Al-jalamah prison after storming the section of women detainees at Damoun prison, using tear gas and brutal assault against them, within the frame of retaliatory attack against detainees in all Israeli prisons. 

 

 The Commission pointed out the Marah Bakeer informed her lawyer, Hanan Khatib , that she is held in a small and rotten cell, with no place to take shower. She is prevented from going to the prison’s yard and she is still in the same clothes since isolating her. 

 

 Marah stated that the cell have surveillance cameras, which violates her privacy. In addition, the bed cover is dirty and stinky, that does not protect her from the cold weather. She is also deprived of having medical checkups since her isolation. 

 

 The Commission indicated that Bakeer was arrested on October 12, 2015 , when she was only 16 years old, after shooting her by the Israeli soldiers in her way back from school. She is sentenced to 8 years and a fine of 10000 ILS.