DaysofPal- The Prisoners Media Office said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) follow a systematic policy of torturing Palestinian prisoners inside prisons and detention centers.
The Office said that IOF uses various forms of physical and psychological torture while imposing strict restrictions on legal teams authorized to visit prisoners and report on their suffering.
The statement indicated that Israeli prisons such as Ofer, Gilboa, Megiddo, Negev, Janot, and Damon witness systematic torture aimed at breaking the Palestinian prisoner’s body and soul, which constitutes a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions and international human rights law.
The Office pointed out that Negev prison experiences severe repression in conditions described as a “desert of isolation,” where prisoners are subjected to violent assaults, including severe beatings, cigarette burns on their bodies, rubber bullet shootings, and brutal sexual assaults, in addition to chronic hunger and lack of medical treatment.
In Janot prison, Palestinian prisoners face daily physical and verbal repression, with severe restrictions on visits and access to lawyers, as well as prolonged solitary confinement.
In Damon prison, where Palestinian female prisoners are held, the administration conducts humiliating strip searches, subjects detainees to beatings and threats of rape, confiscates their hijabs and cloaks, and restrains them with chains during medical treatment. Surveillance cameras are installed inside the rooms, and the prisoners are deprived of seeing their children or even photos of them.
The Office further emphasized that these violations are deliberate policies, not isolated incidents, amid alarming international silence.
Regarding legal teams, the occupation authorities have imposed tightened measures that prevent lawyers from delivering greetings or family messages to detainees and threaten to take punitive actions against anyone attempting to do so, whether during visits or court sessions, aiming to completely isolate prisoners from the outside world.
The administration also continues to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross and detainees’ families from visiting them, especially since the start of the ongoing genocide war on Gaza in October 2023. There are also significant obstacles to lawyers’ visits, including declaring states of emergency to cancel visits, delays in responding to requests, and long-term bans on visits.
The statement warned that the occupation continues the crime of enforced disappearance of a large number of Gaza detainees by preventing legal teams from accessing them and imposing tight security measures on available visits.
The Prisoners Media Office concluded that these measures represent a dangerous escalation in the occupation’s attempts to isolate prisoners from their families and lawyers and systematically restrict their legal and human rights. It added that denying prisoners communication with their lawyers and families constitutes a clear violation of international laws and human rights, increasing the detainees’ suffering and revealing the occupation’s intent to suppress and mistreat prisoners while concealing violations committed by the prison administration.
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