The Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority said on Monday that it had monitored a large number of detainees in Etzion Prison who had been poisoned as a result of spoiled meals provided to them by the prison administration.

The Commission added, according to its lawyer, after difficult attempts to visit the detainee, which he was able to do yesterday, that the detainees, after the meals that were provided to them, felt severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, weakness, emaciation, and yellowing of the face, and they lost a lot of fluids in their bodies and became unable to stand, and many of them fainted.

The Authority added that since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, the prison administration has been deliberately practicing the most heinous punishments against detainees, including keeping them hungry for long periods, and only providing them with poor quality and quantity of meals.

She pointed out that the prison administration meets anyone who objects to this with severe beatings and isolation.

She appealed to all relevant international bodies to intervene quickly to end their suffering, and demanded immediate and urgent intervention to protect detainees inside the occupation prisons.

It is noteworthy that the "Etzion Detention Center" is located in the southern West Bank, and is built on lands north of the Hebron Governorate, within the "Gush Etzion" settlement bloc, and is listed among the worst detention centers in the world.