The Commission said in a statement that her lawyer was able to visit a number of detainees who confirmed the tragic situation inside the detention center.
In a joint statement, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) and the Authority of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners disclosed that the detentions took place in Hebron, Tubas, Ramallah, and Jerusalem.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces in Gaza Strip.
The detainee, Faraj Al-Samuni, said at the moment of his release that detainees in the occupation prisons, especially those from Gaza, suffer from tragic and unbearable conditions and circumstances.
A Palestinian lawyer, the first granted access to Israeli jail Sde Teiman, has revealed the tragic condition under which more than a thousand Palestinian detainees from Gaza Strip are held.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, said in a statement that she had received reports of people being beaten, kept in Israeli prison cells blindfolded and handcuffed for long periods.
“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 ...
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.
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.