The head of the Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority, Qaddoura Fares, called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to make all possible efforts to stop the Israeli occupation's violations against detainees.

Fares spoke during his meeting today, Monday, with a delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which included: the Protection Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross mission working in Palestine and the occupied territories, Camelia Maltiosi, the Director of the West Bank Offices, Arnoud Mafri, and the Director of the Central Offices, Suha Musleh, about the overall details and developments of the issue of detainees, and the fierce attacks against them, including abuse, attacks, deprivation of rights.

He called for the necessity of working to quickly reveal the numbers and data of detainees in the Gaza Strip, whom the occupying state refuses to disclose and their fate, pointing to the general dissatisfaction with the role of the committee’s mission, and that there is a feeling from institutions working in the field of detainees and their families that negligence costs them more isolation from them.

In the same context, Fares called on the Kingdom of the Netherlands to use its influence on the Israeli state, to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, stop its attack on male and female detainees inside its prisons, and put an end to the persecution, arrest, and abuse of citizens in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

This came during his meeting with the Dutch Ambassador to the State of Palestine, Michel Rentenaar, where he informed him of the reality of the catastrophic conditions of the detainees, as a result of the immoral and inhumane practices carried out by the Israeli prison administration and the repression units that have been present inside the departments and in front of the rooms since October 7 until this moment.

He said: “Since the beginning of the war, the detainees have been isolated inside their rooms. All of their possessions, including clothes, blankets, kitchen utensils, and electrical appliances, were taken away. They were deprived of drinking water and showers. Television channels were deleted, radios were confiscated, and newspapers were prevented from entering. They were deliberately insulted and humiliated during the counting and inspection, and the quantities of food were reduced to more than half were treated badly, with daily raids and beatings on them, which reached the point of breaking hands and legs, and executions began, as happened with the two prisoners, Daraghmeh and Hamdan,” stressing that “the most dangerous thing is the carrying of firearms by the police and soldiers of the prison administration and repression units.”