The Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority reported on Sunday that female prisoners at Damoun Prison, especially those arrested from the Gaza Strip, face very difficult detention conditions and are subject to severe punishments that have increased daily since October 7.

The Commission reported, through its lawyer, that the occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the 1948 territories, and Gaza, against our female prisoners, and all of them were subjected to torture and abuse from the moment of arrest until entering the prison, whether by beating and cursing, or strip searches, in addition to isolation and deprivation of the most basic rights.

One of the female prisoners said, “An old woman (80 years old) from Gaza arrived at the department a few days ago, walking on a crutch and without a cover on her head. Her body and clothes were full of blood and she did not know anything. It seemed that she was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.”

The Commission indicated that all the female prisoners of the Gaza Strip had their clothes taken and replaced with summer clothes, and they were subjected to many beatings and assaults, in addition to non-stop insults. Some of them remained for 7 days outdoors in the rain and in the cold, and all the female prisoners of the Gaza Strip arrived in the prison in a deplorable health, physical and psychological conditions. 

It pointed out that one of Gaza's prisoners, a mother, said, "When she was arrested, she was accompanied by her four young children. She did not know what to do with them. There was a man from Gaza close to her. She gave him her children, not knowing who he was, and left them without knowing their fate."

The Commission confirmed that the testimonies mentioned express a very small part of what we were able to reach, and what is hidden is greater, as the prison administration deliberately isolates the female prisoners in Gaza from the rest of the female prisoners, and from the outside world completely, in order to continue committing its crimes without accountability or oversight.