The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to establish new camps to detain more detainees from Gaza, estimated at thousands. The latest of these camps is the Naftali camp, where between 80-90 detainees are being held, according to the accounts of detainees who were recently visited.

The Authority and the Club explained, in a statement today, Wednesday, that this camp is among a number of camps that the occupation created or reused after the war, in light of the continued intensive arrest campaigns that affected thousands from Gaza, in addition to the use of central prisons to detain them.

The Commission and the Club pointed out that based on all the visits that were made during the past period to a number of camps where Gaza detainees are being held, the detention conditions are similar, and again, all those who were visited, stopped at length during the investigation period, where they were all subjected to systematic torture, and conveyed shocking and horrific testimonies, where the occupation soldiers used all means and methods of torture, and turned everything in the prison structure into a tool for torture and abuse.

The lawyer who conducted the visit to three of the detainees in the Naftali camp described that the visit was accompanied by an occupation soldier from the moment of entering the camp until the end of the visit. A container was allocated as a space to complete the visit, divided into two halves containing a closed plastic window, without a telephone, and without lighting. If the door was closed, the lawyer could not see the prisoner.

In this context, the Prisoners’ Authority and the Prisoners’ Club confirm that, to this day, there is no clear data on the number of detainees in Gaza, specifically those held in camps affiliated with the occupation army, noting that the occupation prison administration announced at the beginning of December 2024 that there were (1772) detainees in prisons who were classified as (illegal combatants), and hundreds of them are still subject to enforced disappearance.

According to the statement, one of the detainees who was visited confirmed: “He was arrested last March from Al-Shifa Hospital, even though he was suffering from injuries to his feet as a result of an accident. The occupation soldiers deliberately interrogated him inside the hospital and forced him to sign a paper in Hebrew, without knowing what it contained. They severely beat him after his arrest, which led him to confess to matters that he had nothing to do with.”

It is noteworthy that the most prominent camps that the occupation used to detain Gaza detainees after the war are the camps (Sde Teiman, Anatot, Ofer camp, in addition to Naftali camp), in addition to many camps that it established near Gaza.

The Prisoners’ Authority and the Prisoners’ Club reviewed again the most important facts about the issue of the Gaza detainees and the arrest campaigns, as since the beginning of the war of extermination until today, there is no clear estimate of the number of detainees from Gaza in the occupation’s prisons and camps, and the only available data is what the occupation’s prison administration announced at the beginning of November, (1772) of those classified as (illegal combatants), including four female prisoners held in (Al-Damon) prison, and dozens of children specifically in (Megiddo) prison and (Ofer) camp.

The statement stressed that the institutions were unable to monitor the number of arrests from Gaza in light of the crime of enforced disappearance imposed by the occupation on Gaza detainees since the beginning of the war, whose number is estimated in the thousands.

The statement stated: The accounts and testimonies of the detainees in Gaza constituted a significant shift in the level of brutality of the occupation system, which reflected an unprecedented level of torture crimes, abuse, and starvation, in addition to systematic medical crimes, sexual assaults, and their use as human shields.

The Sde Teiman camp was also a prominent address for torture crimes and horrific medical crimes against Gaza detainees, in addition to what was reported and testimonies of other released detainees about rapes and sexual assaults there, knowing that this camp is not the only place where Gaza detainees are held, as the occupation distributed them to several central prisons and camps, and carried out systematic torture operations against them, parallel to the torture operations in the Sde Teiman camp, including the Negev and Ofer prisons.

He also confirmed that these crimes led to the martyrdom of dozens of detainees, in addition to the field executions that were carried out against others, noting that the relevant institutions announced only (29) martyrs from the detainees of Gaza, and they are among (47) detainees and prisoners who were martyred since the beginning of the war of extermination, while the occupation continues to conceal the rest of the names of detainees who were martyred in the camps and prisons.

The occupation continues to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting them, as well as all prisoners and detainees.

It is noteworthy that the occupation is carrying out, to date, wide-scale arrest campaigns in northern Gaza, which have, according to estimates, affected more than 1,000 detainees, noting that these arrest campaigns have affected dozens of medical staff, and to date there is no information available about the fate of those who were recently arrested and are still subject to enforced disappearance.

Attached are the names of a number of detainees held in the Naftali camp: Ashour Daghmash, Hamza Shalouf, journalist Muhammad Abu Shawish, Ghiath al-Madhoun, Salah Abu Shamala, prisoner Khaled Hassan Jadida, Hussein Zaazou, a minor aged 17, Yousef Naaman Aboud, Dr. Muhammad Zaher, head of intensive care at the Indonesian Hospital, Muhammad Tayseer Assaf, a nurse at Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Muhammad Salama Katari.