The lawyer of the Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority confirmed, after her last visit to Etzion Prison, where 112 prisoners are held, that the prison administration continues to provide the prisoners with expired food. For a whole week, it provided closed sandwiches consisting of tuna, yellow cheese, and expired mortadella, and the prisoners had no objection to eating them, as they have no choice in light of the food shortage, as they are somewhat filling.

She said in a statement: “The abuse and storming of rooms is still ongoing. The repressive forces are cramming the prisoners into the corners of the rooms and forcing them to lower their heads in a harmful manner. Then they drag each prisoner to another room, subject him to a strip search, and ask him to get up and down several times, under the pretext of searching for capsules inside their intestines.”

She added: "Fungi began to invade the prisoners' bodies, due to the lack of cleaning materials for the rooms, or bathing and personal hygiene supplies. The covers are also damp and have a very bad smell, which made the situation worse."

In this context, the Authority’s lawyer conveyed the testimony of prisoner Tariq Yousef Abu Matar (35 years old)/Ramallah, who has been in Etzion prison for 20 days, from the city, who said: “This is my seventh arrest. I have previously spent a total of 9 years in prison, but I have never been subjected to such an amount of beating, violence and torture over the past years as this time. My hands were tied behind my back and my eyes were blindfolded, then the soldiers threw me to the ground and beat me severely with weapons and their boots all over my body, until I was no longer able to move.”

“They took me to an army camp for 12 hours, during which the soldiers took turns beating me and forced me to squat the whole time. Then they tied me up with a chain and put a dog in front of me to scare me. I remained in this condition until they transferred me to Etzion prison. I remained for 3 days unable to move, eat or go to the bathroom except with the help of the prisoners. After that, I was interrogated and accused of belonging to a hostile organization. I was sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention.”