The Prisoner’s Club said today, Wednesday, “The systematic starvation policy today constitutes one of the most prominent policies pursued by the occupation against prisoners since the beginning of the ongoing war of genocide against our people in Gaza, which directly affected the fate of the prisoners and their health conditions, and was one of the direct causes that led to their martyrdom.” A number of them, in addition to systematic torture, also caused many prisoners to suffer from chronic health problems.”

The Prisoner's Club said that, despite the clear effects that the starvation policy had on the prisoners over the past months, the extremist fascist minister (Ben Gvir) was not satisfied with the crimes he carried out against the prisoners and detainees, including the killing of prisoners through torture, starvation, and medical crimes.

The Prisoner’s Club explained that, in light of the petition submitted by human rights organizations to the Supreme Court of the occupation, regarding the issue of food provided to prisoners, we affirm that the occupation’s judicial apparatus constitutes the main arm in entrenching many crimes against prisoners and detainees, but attempts to confront these measures continue. Putting this agency under constant question regarding the level of crimes carried out by (its state) is necessary.

The Prisoner's Club pointed out that the so-called "meals" that are poor in quantity and quality are morsels shared by the prisoners, and in many cases they are not fit to eat. Moreover, on many occasions, specifically in army detention centers, expired canned food was provided to the prisoners.

Since the beginning of the war of genocide, the occupation prison administration had deprived the prisoners of the “cantina,” which they had mainly relied on to provide them with adequate food before the war, and that was at their own expense. The prison administration only provided poor meals in quantity and quality, but they were not comparable to the level of luqaimat. Which is served today, and over the past years the prisoners have been working to re-cook it, and the prison administration, in the first period of the war, deliberately took away the remaining food from the prisoners inside (their cells - rooms).

The starvation policy was not limited to adult prisoners, but rather affected children, women, and the sick, including patients in need of specific nutrition, in addition to pregnant women prisoners who were arrested and not provided with appropriate food, in addition to being held in tragic and harsh conditions.

We mention here that one of the victims of the starvation policy and the provision of poor quality and quantity food is the martyr prisoner Muhammad Ahmed Al-Sabbar, who was martyred in February of this year.

We point out that all the prisoners’ testimonies obtained by the institutions clearly reflected this policy, and were the basis for their narrative about the current stage, and the photos of the released prisoners constitute additional evidence.