Today, Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees Affairs Authority conveyed difficult testimonies from a number of prisoners in the Negev prison of the Israeli occupation, after a number of its lawyers were able to visit them recently.

In a statement, the Authority described the Negev prison as a "cemetery of the living," adding that the Israeli prison administration "adopts a policy of revenge and stifling restrictions against prisoners and deliberately suppresses prisoners, tortures them, and deprives them of the most basic necessities of life."

The Commission revealed that "many prisoners were exposed to serious injuries, and infectious diseases appeared among them, the most important of which is scabies, in addition to most of them losing weight sharply."

She pointed out that the prisoners "always feel weak due to starvation and deliberate humiliation and degradation, in addition to medical neglect, as sick prisoners were not exempted from torture and deprivation of treatment and medication."

The Commission quotes prisoner Qusay Hasees (20 years old), who has been detained since November 4, 2023, as saying to the Commission’s lawyer that he “suffers from skypus disease and his health condition is very difficult,” adding that he has asked the prison administration dozens of times for treatment to no avail.

The prisoner added that as a result of these symptoms he is unable to sleep for days on end, noting that 10 prisoners in the same room with him suffer from the same disease, “and some of them are constantly bleeding and bleeding.”

For his part, prisoner Ayman Mahmoud Atshan (29 years old) from the town of Aroura, Ramallah district, who has been detained since November 1, 2023, said that he complains of “pain due to fractures in his ribs as a result of severe beatings, and he cannot move or get out of bed except with the help of others.”

As for the prisoner Mujahid Abu Al-Ezz (30 years old), who is from Jenin camp and has been detained since December 12, he said that he suffers from skypus disease.

In turn, prisoner Jalal Hilal Shakhshir (31 years old) from Nablus told his lawyer that he had sustained head injuries as a result of being assaulted by the so-called “Keter” prison forces, which led to the deterioration of his health and psychological condition, adding that this affected his concentration, and that he needed medical follow-up, while the prison administration ignored his condition.

In its statement, the Commission held “the Israeli occupation authorities and its prison administration fully responsible for the lives of male and female prisoners in Israeli prisons.”

She called on the international community, human rights institutions and the International Committee of the Red Cross to "stand by the prisoners and carry out their role and duty to stop these systematic crimes and the policy of direct killing and slow death against thousands inside the occupation's prisons."

In conjunction with its war on Gaza, the Israeli army expanded its operations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and arrested about 10,200 Palestinians, while its raids and settler attacks left 643 dead until Sunday, and about 5,400 wounded, according to official Palestinian data.

With American support, Israel waged a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 133,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.