The Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority revealed, on Tuesday, the continued poor living and detention conditions experienced by prisoners in Ofer Prison, imposed on them according to the escalation policy that began on October 7, 2023.

The Commission explained, according to its lawyer’s visit to the prison, that the prison administration is still depriving prisoners of blankets and winter clothes in Sections 18 and 21, in light of the severe cold and the onset of winter.

The prisoners who were visited by the Commission’s lawyer reported that the food was scarce, bad, raw, and served without salt or sugar. The prison guards also seized everything they could see in the rooms, including bedding, empty boxes, eating and living utensils, Qur’ans, and prayer rugs.

The committee’s lawyer reported that the prison guards are jamming the visiting phones, and that at least five soldiers are standing behind the door of the visiting room to disrupt the prisoner and the lawyer. He pointed out that the prisoners who were visited went out for the visit in a bad condition, as they were assaulted by beatings before the visit and remained handcuffed and blindfolded.

Regarding the prisoners who were visited, the Commission’s lawyer stated that prisoner Asid Hamed (21 years old) from the village of Silwad, east of Ramallah, who was arrested on 10/30/2023, suffers from tooth and stomach pain and is not receiving the necessary treatment.

As for prisoner Muhammad Abu Sakout (26 years old), who was arrested on 9/8/2023, he suffers from hemorrhoids, but he refused to go to the Ramla prison clinic because of the torture that prisoners are subjected to during their transfer to the clinic, as prisoners wait for long hours and return with additional diseases and are subjected to insults and violence during the transfer and waiting process to enter what is called the Ramla prison clinic.