Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Ramallah, Jan 20. - More than 9,350 Palestinians are currently locked up in Israeli prisons, where they are subjected to all kinds of torture and abuse, denounced NGOs linked to the issue.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club specified in a joint statement that the figure includes 53 women and 350 minors, held in Megiddo and Ofer prisons.
Of the total, 3,385 are detained under the controversial policy known as "administrative detention," and 1,237 have been labeled as "illegal combatants," a term used by Israel to classify militants from the Gaza Strip.
Administrative detention is rejected by human rights groups because it allows holding prisoners for long periods without presenting evidence against them, and without charging, trying, or convicting them.
Both organizations also condemned the systematic mistreatment Palestinians face in Israeli detention centers.
Last week, the Palestinian Prisoners' Press Office raised the alarm about the same issue.
The NGO published a report titled "The Systematic Torture of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons After the 2023 War," based on testimonies from 12 released individuals.
The text confirmed a dangerous and unprecedented escalation in torture policies and violations against Palestinian detainees.
It warned that since the outbreak of the conflict, Israeli prisons have become tools of repression and collective punishment, which cannot be treated as individual transgressions but as official policy implemented with the aim of seeking revenge, breaking the will of Palestinians, and violating their human dignity.
The document classified the violations, citing excessive violence—including severe beatings amounting to "torture with intent to kill"—the use of dogs and pouring of hot water, as well as psychological pressure.
It also denounced systematic humiliation, such as confinement in narrow cages, forcing prisoners to kneel for long hours, exposing them to extreme cold, and deliberate sleep deprivation.
Furthermore, it documented exposing detainees to serious sexual violations and attacks on human dignity, as well as policies of starvation and deliberate medical neglect. (Text and photo: PL)
