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Thu 04 Jan 2024 12:48 pm - Jerusalem Time

51 female detainees from the Gaza Strip are detained in “Damoun” prison.

The Commission for Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club revealed the names of 51 female detainees from Gaza, who are being held in (Damoun) prison.


The authority and the club explained in a press statement, today, Thursday, that these names available until the end of last week, including elderly women and children, but the number of female detainees from Gaza is higher than this number, but the clear data relates to the female detainees in (Damoun) prison only.


The statement indicated that only their names are available about the detainees, and some data provided by the detainees about their conditions, as they face abuse and humiliation over time, and they are detained in tragic conditions, like all Gaza detainees, as the institutions were not able to know any accurate data about their numbers, And their places of detention, or their health conditions, as the occupation continues to practice the crime of enforced disappearance against them, and prevents legal teams affiliated with human rights institutions from visiting them and learning about their conditions, and also refuses to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit them.


It pointed out that the only data announced by the occupation prisons administration was the presence of 661 Gaza detainees, whom it classified as “unlawful combatants.”


It is noteworthy that many testimonies were carried by Gaza detainees, after their release, and reflected a high level of torture and abuse carried out by the occupation army against them, which was visible on their bodies immediately after their release, in addition to the occupation media revealing the martyrdom of a group of Gaza detainees in the (Sde Teman) camp. ) in the Beersheba area, without revealing their identities, noting that the occupation recently admitted to executing a Gaza detainee.


The statement touched on the photos and videos published by the occupation of Gaza detainees being held naked and in conditions degrading to human dignity, noting that after October 7, the occupation announced the martyrdom of two detainees who were Gaza workers, and the fate of one of them, Majed Zaqoul, was not revealed. Revealing the fate of the other person who was martyred, according to the occupation media, in the Anatot camp.


Since the beginning of its aggression against the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities have implemented some military orders and legal amendments related to Gaza detainees, which contribute to the implementation of more crimes against them, especially in light of their continued denial of access to a lawyer.


Fears are rising about the fate of Gaza detainees in light of the continuation of the crime of enforced disappearance, despite all the demands and appeals made by institutions to international human rights bodies, led by the United Nations, in order to reveal the fate of the detainees.


It is noteworthy that the total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,291.



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51 female detainees from the Gaza Strip are detained in “Damoun” prison.