Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Ramallah, Jan 29. - The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs today denounced the harsh living conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and the systematic violence against them.
In a statement, the body revealed that its legal team conducted a series of visits to penitentiary centers, where it verified the difficult conditions in which the prisoners live and heard testimonies confirming daily violations, including medical negligence.
The Commission criticized the deprivation of the most basic human rights, guaranteed by international laws, such as the deliberate delay in health treatments.
The prisoners also complained about the irregularity of being allowed into the yard and the imposition of strict restrictions, in addition to the poor quality of food and its meager quantities, which do not cover minimum nutritional needs.
Furthermore, the institution stressed that it will continue its legal actions at the local and international levels and called on the world to intervene to pressure the Israeli authorities.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) denounced this week that these centers have become torture camps for Palestinian prisoners, under an official policy based on physical and psychological abuse, hunger, and medical negligence.
In a report titled "Hell on Earth," the NGO criticized the strategy against Palestinian detainees.
It highlighted that at least 84 of them have died in Israeli prisons and detention centers since the start of the aggression against the Gaza Strip in October 2023 until December of last year.
Torture has become a systematic and declared policy, which includes brutal beatings, electric shocks, the use of dogs, gas and sound bombs, deliberate humiliation, suspension in painful positions, solitary confinement, forced nudity, and sexual assaults, it warned.
The report documented a dangerous pattern of sexual violence within prisons, as well as testimonies of amputations, loss of sight and hearing, and internal bleeding as a result of torture or medical negligence.
The text described living conditions as inhumane in these centers by denouncing overcrowding, lack of hygiene, clothing, and blankets during winter, and shortages of drinking water and food.
Last week, the newspaper The Times of Israel revealed a report by the Public Defender's Office, which admitted that imprisoned Palestinians face conditions unfit for human beings and are subjected to torture methods.
A document from that body confirmed that so-called security detainees suffered severe and systematic violence by prison guards. (Text and photo: PL)
