The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club revealed new testimonies from a group of Gaza detainees held in the Negev Desert Prison, based on a series of visits conducted recently by the Prisoners' Authority's lawyers, which included eight detainees, most of whom were arrested at the beginning of the ground invasion of Gaza, specifically through the so-called "safe passage", during their displacement from northern Gaza to its south, and others were arrested from shelter schools and from Al-Shifa Hospital.

The testimonies of the eight detainees included details about the crimes of torture, abuse and horrific attacks to which they were subjected, specifically during the first period of their arrest, before their transfer to the Negev prison. Here we point out that the horrific details to which they were subjected were mainly related to the first period of their arrest, but this does not mean that the crimes of torture against them stopped after their transfer from the camp, which they referred to as being in the Gaza Envelope, to the prisons. Rather, all the detainees are still subjected to difficult and tragic conditions that language, according to their description, is unable to convey the reality of what is happening to them in an instant inside the prison, especially at the current stage due to the spread of skin diseases among them, specifically scabies, which has become a tool of torture and abuse.

According to the data obtained by the prisoners’ institutions from the Gaza detainees in the Negev prison, there are about 1,200 detainees from Gaza in the Negev prison, distributed across eight sections, each section containing (150) detainees.

The Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club reviewed in the report a central testimony from one of the detainees, in addition to other testimonies that included details about the crimes they were subjected to as well as the current prison conditions. It is worth noting that these visits are part of a series of visits conducted by human rights organizations, which are limited visits that were mainly made to detainees in the Ofer camp and the Negev prison, in addition to a number of visits to detainees in the Sde Teiman camp, which was the most prominent station for torture crimes against Gaza detainees, in addition to a group of camps in which the level of torture crimes is no less than the level of crimes to which detainees were subjected in the Sde Teiman camp.