The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority said that the Megiddo prison administration is working to assassinate the childhood of minor prisoners, singling them out, and practicing hateful punitive and retaliatory policies against them, based on beatings, torture, and daily abuse.

The Commission added, according to the visit of its lawyer, that the young prisoners live in a difficult and complex reality, as they are detained in Section 3, which is a special section for young prisoners under the age of 18, and their number is approximately 130 minor children, including 18 young people from the Gaza Strip, who live in the rooms with great overcrowding. The number of children in one room ranges between (12-18) children, suffering from the spread of “Scapius” disease, which has appeared extensively as a result of deprivation of bathing, a lack of clothes, and they only have the clothes they wear on their bodies and are not allowed to possess soap, shampoos, detergents, and sterilizers. The infection increases daily, and they are deprived of medicines and treatment.

It pointed out that as a result of the aforementioned policy of deprivation, symptoms of the disease appeared on their bodies, and the vast majority of them cannot sleep, due to aches, pains, strong itching, the spread of wounds and ulcers, and the worsening and seriousness of the disease in light of the high temperatures, and the child who seeks treatment is subjected to beatings, humiliation, and isolation from Before the jailers without any regard to the stipulated international laws and conventions.

The Commission expressed its concern about what young prisoners and all prisoners in the occupation prisons are exposed to, and appealed to international institutions concerned with children’s rights to put an end to the systematic policy of exclusivity based on vindictive and racist foundations.