“Israeli prison authorities continue to starve more than 9,100 detainees, including women, children and sick,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society, a local NGO, said in a statement on Monday.

​​​​​​​Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council meetings in Geneva, Edwards stated that she has recently received reports of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank or during the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the PLO’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said the Israeli policy of starving Palestinian prisoners has caused them “to lose between 15 to 25 kilograms per prisoner”.

The detainees include 33 women, 166 children, and 2,873 people held without trial or charge under Israel’s notorious policy of administrative detention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement.

According to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which cited senior officials in the country’s Prison Service, “electricity has been cut off for all Palestinian prisoners” in order to block all access to media and means of communication by the prisoners who would otherwise apparently potentially deliver guidance or instructions to the Palestinian ...

Move comes to voice solidarity with Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 63 days

Detainees Kayed al-Fasfous and Sultan Khlouf have been on hunger strike for 39 days, while detainee Maher al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 19 days, all in protest of their detention without charges or trial.

In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the strike aims to pile pressure on the Israeli prison authorities to reverse restrictions against the detainees.

Ben-Gvir stated on Friday, “The Prison Service must strictly adhere to the legal requirement of family visits for security prisoners every two months. As soon as I became aware of this situation, I immediately instructed compliance with the law.”

The latest prison data shows that there are now more than 5,100 Palestinians currently held in Israeli jails, including more than 1,200 under the infamous administrative detention system with neither charge nor trial.

In north of the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians in Nablus, while in Qalqilya two others were detained.

PPS said detainees Kayed al-Fasfous and Sultan Khlouf have been on hunger strike for 24 days. Another detainee, Osama Darkouk, has been on hunger strike for 20 days. Meantime, four other detainees have been on hunger strike for 17 days. The four detainees are: Mohammad Taysir Zakarneh, Anas Kmail, Abdelrahman Baraka and Zuhdi Abdo.

It said forces raided the house of Ismail Khatib in Kufr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem located beyond the segregation barrier, and arrested him after severely beating him and ransacking his house.

The rights groups included the PLO's Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Addameer for Prisoner Rights and the Wadi Al-Hilwa Information Centre.

Commissioner of Prisons, Katy Perry, signed a directive that requires detainees to pay from their own money for dental treatments that, until now, have been paid for by the state, the Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported.

In the north of the West Bank, Israeli forces conducted a military raid in the town of Tamoun, in the district of Tubas, that resulted in the detention of a 20 years old Palestinian youth.

According to the PPC, 100 Palestinians were detained in Jericho's Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, where the Israeli occupation forces carried out deadly detention campaigns.

In the northern Jordan Valley town of Tammoun, the Israeli forces detained two men, one of them 41 years of age, after breaking into their homes and searching them. One of the detainees was taken away to force his son to turn himself over to the army, according to the director of the Prisoner’s Society office in Tubas Kamal Bani Odeh.

About 700 Palestinian prisoners suffering from health problems in Israeli custody, according to authorities

Adnan was arrested by an Israeli army force that raided his home in the town of Arraba, near Jenin, on February 5, and has been on hunger strike from the first moment of his arrest. His home was thoroughly searched and vandalized by the attacking soldiers during his arrest.