New testimonies from Gaza detainees in Ofer, documented by the Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Prisoners' Club, showed that the occupation prison administration continues to commit atrocities against them, including torturing them physically and psychologically, and depriving them of treatment and food.

The Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Prisoners Club said in a joint press release on Monday that their legal teams were recently able to visit 15 detainees from the Gaza Strip in Ofer prison, who confirmed that they have been shackled around the clock for more than 10 months, and that they are deprived of using tissues and soap, and are only allowed to shower every 10 days, for three minutes, and have lost their ability to estimate time.

They indicated in their testimonies that the prison administration systematically uses the opening in the door of their cells to punish them by forcing the bound detainees to stick their hands out of the opening of the cell up to their armpits, after which the prison guards use several tools to beat them on their hands and bend them violently, causing unbearable pain.

They explained that this type of physical torture has become the most prominent form of daily torture, without excluding any of the detainees, whether minors, sick, wounded, or the elderly.

In the testimony of one of the detainees whose legs were amputated (A.A.), he said that the prison administration forced the detainees held with him in the cell to carry him to the level of the cell opening to get his hands out of it, and they beat him and bent his hands severely, as a “punishment” for his inability to get down from the “bersh” – the place where prisoners sleep – during what is called (the number – the security check).

He added: Even though my legs are amputated, the prison guards force me every day to get off the “barsh” and lie on my stomach on the ground, until the “number” period for all the cells in the section ends, and this is repeated four times a day.

He confirmed that since his arrest on February 15, 2024, he has been handcuffed all the time, and as a result suffers from severe pain in his hands, bruises and swelling, and severe burning at the ends of his amputated feet.

The Commission and the Prisoners Club explained that the prison administration uses (the number) as a tool of torture and abuse of detainees, noting that it is carried out four times a day, during which detainees are forced to lie on their stomachs until the number is finished in all cells, i.e. about two hours, and anyone who violates it is punished through the opening of the "cell".

The detainees mentioned in their testimonies what happens during the process of transporting them to court sessions, indicating that they are transferred from 7:00 in the morning to an (iron cage), and are forced to sit in an uncomfortable position (on the knees or stomach) until the court procedures are completed.

In the context of the occupation’s continued implementation of the crime of enforced disappearance against hundreds of detainees from Gaza, there is no clear data from the relevant institutions regarding the total number of detainees from Gaza in the occupation’s prisons and camps, except for what was announced by the prison administration at the beginning of November 2024, that there are (1627) detainees from Gaza who the occupation classifies as (illegal combatants), noting that this data does not include all detainees from Gaza, specifically those in the camps affiliated with the occupation army.