Palestinian Authority: 95 female prisoners in occupation prisons are subjected to systematic abuse and torture

The Palestinian Authority for Prisoners' Affairs and Freed Prisoners revealed today, Tuesday, that 95 female prisoners are living a bitter and difficult reality inside the occupation prisons, noting that "female prisoners in the Israeli Damon prison are facing difficult conditions due to their exposure to systematic abuse and torture."

The Commission confirmed in a statement that "female prisoners live in isolation and isolation, as they are subjected to the harshest types of physical and psychological torture, in addition to their isolation from the outside world due to the confiscation of televisions and radios, and the prevention of all types of newspapers from entering them."

She explained that "the punishments imposed on detainees since the aggression on the Gaza Strip affected female prisoners in all their details and brutality, the most prominent of which are reducing food quantities to less than the minimum, closing the canteen (store), preventing family visits, and shortages of clothes, blankets and cleaning materials, in addition to limiting the hours of rest and bathing."

The statement added: "The prison administration practices beating and torture against female prisoners in Al-Damon Prison, and deliberately ties their hands and feet and blindfolds them in a brutal manner during their interrogation or when they go to the clinic or visit their lawyer."

The statement indicated that the number of female prisoners inside the occupation prisons reached 95, including 82 female prisoners from the occupied West Bank, 5 from occupied Jerusalem, 6 from the occupied interior (Israel), and two female prisoners from Gaza whose identities were known, stressing that the majority of the female prisoners were arrested after October 7, 2023, and administrative detention orders (without trial) were issued against them.

Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7, Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights organizations have spoken about the deteriorating conditions in Israeli prisons, especially in the notorious “Sde Teiman” prison in southern Israel.

The number of prisoners in Israeli prisons exceeds 9,900, not including all the detainees from Gaza who are in the camps of the Israeli occupation army, according to institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs.

With full American support, Israel is waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 135,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and a deadly famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly.