The Palestinian Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority revealed, on Sunday, that "widespread repression" was carried out against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons on October 7.

This came according to a statement by the body affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization, in which it presented testimonies of detainees in Israeli prisons after a number of its lawyers were able to visit them recently.

Since the start of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights organizations have spoken about the deteriorating conditions in Israeli prisons, especially in the notorious Sde Teiman.

The Commission said, "The Israeli prison administration carried out extensive raids in several prisons on October 7, as part of the policy of collective revenge, which is the most prominent systematic policy followed by the Israeli prison system against prisoners and detainees."

The Commission quoted a detainee, who only gave his first name (L.T.), in Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, as saying that “the repressive forces stormed all sections, sprayed tear gas, and assaulted most of the detainees.”

Another detainee in the same prison added, "The repressive forces assaulted the detainees in the section where he was being held, resulting in minor injuries," according to the statement.

A third detainee reported that “a number of detainees, as a result of the repression, are still suffering from the effects of beatings, and the repression, searches and humiliation operations have recently been escalating, although they have not actually stopped since the beginning of the war until today.”

In Ramon Prison in southern Israel, a group of detainees reported to the Commission’s lawyers that “the repressive forces stormed their sections, tied them all up, and transferred them to the prison yard, in humiliating and degrading conditions, and assaulted them.”

The Authority's statement indicated that "the Israeli Prison Administration deliberately filmed the suppression operation, and the majority of the detainees suffered bruises in the chest and back."

The number of Palestinian detainees since that date has exceeded 11,300 Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, according to prisoner institutions, while accurate numbers on detainees in the Gaza Strip are absent due to the Israeli blackout.