The Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority said that detainees in the Negev prison are suffering from difficult conditions with the approach of winter.

In a statement issued on Thursday, it explained that due to the prison being located in the Negev desert, southwest of the city of Beersheba, which is characterized by extremely cold weather at night, the prison administration deliberately keeps the detainees in very light summer clothes, and deprives them of blankets and covers, to double their suffering.

In another context, the Commission reported that all the detainees who were visited were infected with scabies, and were not provided with any type of treatment or medical follow-up. They confirmed that there are a number of other prisoners who have reached advanced stages of the disease, and because of the spread of boils and infections, they cannot eat or move except with the help of other detainees.

She pointed out that its crews were recently able to visit a number of detainees in the Negev prison, to check on them and follow up on their health and detention conditions. The following were visited:

- Detainee Mohammed Hassan Al-Barghouthi (24 years old) from Ramallah, who was beaten and abused more than 15 times since the beginning of the war on Gaza, and lost about 30 kilograms of his weight. He was arrested on 01/28/2017, and was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

- The detainee Muhammad Awad Awda (30 years old) from Bethlehem, who was arrested on 05/09/2024, and was sentenced to 6 months of administrative imprisonment, and his sentence was confirmed for the second time on 11/18/2024.

- Detainee Musa Hassan Issa Hula (40 years old) from Tulkarm, detained since 01/15/2004, and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

- Detainee Osama Asida Jabri (53 years old) from Nablus, arrested on 05/02/2002, and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

- Detainee Muhammad Darwish Hashash (23 years old), sentenced to 5 years in prison, and detained since 11/17/2020