The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority said that the pace of attacks on detainees inside Israeli occupation prisons has been on an escalating curve since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, in light of a severe blackout by the prison administration.

The Prisoners' Authority explained in a press statement that the occupation prison administration prevents visits from family and lawyers, and completely isolates the detainees from the outside world. During the same period, 6 detainees were dead as a result of severe torture, and the departments were subjected to almost daily raids, during which soldiers severely beat the detainees with batons, rifles, gas, and rubber bullets, which resulted in bruises, and deep wounds, in addition to fractures in their hands and legs.

It pointed out that during the arrest and raid operations, the occupation soldiers deliberately broke down the homes of the detainees and beat them violently from the moment of arrest until the investigation and the end of imprisonment. This included insults, threats, and deliberate neglect of their injuries and health conditions, leaving them without treatment. If a prisoner requested a doctor, the response would be immediately from the soldiers: “Whoever asks to leave the department for treatment will be beaten and die."

The Commission reviewed a number of racist punishments and restrictions to which detainees are subjected, the most important of which are: the absence of aluminum windows on the windows, as the prisoners suffer from the extreme cold, and the available covers are very light and do not protect them from the cold. The detainees tried to close the windows with cardboard, but every time they tried to do so, they were beaten. They raid the room, punish them, and assault them.

It added that the food is very poor in quantity and quality, and is cold and smells bad. The quantity provided to 12 detainees is only enough for four, and the detainees are not allowed to go out to the breaks and they removed all electrical appliances, personal belongings, and clothes, and the prisoners remain in one spare change at all times.

It pointed out that a large number of detainees sleep on the floor, due to the lack of sufficient beds and the increase in the number of detainees in the departments to at least three times the normal number, while the duration of showering does not exceed 10 minutes a day with cold water, and the “canteen” is completely closed.

The Commission stated that this fierce attack on detainees coincides with the absence of the role of human rights and humanitarian institutions in providing the slightest protection and follow-up of their conditions and rights, which are clearly violated on a daily basis and the policy of slow killing is practiced against them.