The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli occupation authorities are committing brutal violations against detainees from the Gaza Strip.

The Commission and the Prisoners Club explained in a joint statement, today, Sunday, that these violations are committed by the occupation forces specifically during the process of arresting them, and in the first period of detention inside the camps.

They pointed out that their teams were able to visit about 30 detainees from the Gaza Strip in the Negev and Ofer prisons under difficult conditions and strict restrictions, including a number of medical teams who were arrested from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, whether they were arrested inside the hospital or through the so-called “safe passages.” The detainees’ testimonies once again reflected the level of brutality practiced by the occupation forces against them.

The statement indicated that the visit took place on the 6th and 7th of November, and confirmed the set of systematic and proven crimes that form the basis for all Gaza testimonies, especially with regard to methods of physical and psychological torture, and systematic humiliation.

He continued: Based on the visits that were made to a group of detainees in the Negev prison, the issue of scabies emerged in their testimonies. Hundreds of detainees from Gaza are infected with the disease, as are hundreds of prisoners from all regions. Today, the Negev detainees are actually facing a real health disaster, in light of the continued spread of the disease among the prisoners. This is met by the prison system continuing to carry out systematic medical crimes, by depriving them of treatment, and its intention to put an end to the reasons that have contributed and continue to contribute to the continued spread of the disease.

The detainees also focused on the first period of detention, as a result of the torture they were subjected to in the army camps. Here we review brief testimonies from a number of them.

The prisoner (D.W.), who has been detained since March 2024, during the aggression on Al-Shifa Hospital, reported that he was detained in the Gaza Envelope area for four months before being transferred to the Negev prison, where he faced difficult and extremely harsh conditions. He was detained throughout that period blindfolded and handcuffed, and was subjected to severe beatings, in addition to insults and intimidation using police dogs. The beatings resulted in rib fractures. Today, although the frequency of beatings has decreased, the suffering has doubled after hundreds of detainees were infected with sciatica, which has become a tool of physical and psychological torture.

He added that he has not changed his clothes for 6 months, and that the prison administration deliberately takes away the mattresses and blankets at dawn and returns them late at night, and the crime of starvation is still ongoing, along with many other systematic crimes.

As for the detainee (L.R), he confirmed that out of (145) detainees held in one of the sections of the (Naqab) prison, (100) of them are infected with (scabies), and suffer from extremely difficult conditions, and systematic medical crimes are being practiced against them. His testimony included the same details that all the detainees mentioned about the first stage of detention, as he was subjected to the most heinous types of torture, insults and beatings, through daily assaults, which caused him fractures in the chest.

All detainees also called for the need to work on bringing them clothes before the onset of winter, as the bitter cold began to prevail in the sections, especially in the Negev prison, during the night hours, as the detainees do not have winter clothes, and each detainee only has a light blanket that does not protect him from the cold. The prison administration also deliberately removes the mattresses and blankets at dawn and returns them late at night. What contributed to the continued spread of scabies is the collection of blankets from all sections and from infected and uninfected rooms, and the blankets became a source of the spread of the disease, in addition to the lack of personal hygiene.

Among the detainees who were visited was a detainee who suffered from hearing loss, diabetes, fractures resulting from torture, and pain all over his body. He sent the lawyer a painful message in which he said, “I cannot sleep, from the cold and hunger. I am dying every moment and I do not know what they want from me. I can no longer bear this torture.”