Gaza - Saba:
The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club confirmed that the enemy's prison system continues its crimes and practices more crimes and brutality against detainees in Gaza.
The Commission and the Club said in a statement on Wednesday that, based on recent visits to a group of detainees, they revealed ongoing sexual assaults, severe beatings, heightened surveillance through cameras, and the humiliation and oppression of detainees by all means.
The statement added: "According to the detainees' testimonies, the prison system has left no stone unturned to strip them of their humanity and attempt to break them psychologically. Nineteen months after the genocide, the conditions and circumstances of detention remain unchanged and at the same level. In fact, they are worsening, as time is a decisive factor in the fate of detainees, while this brutality continues at the same level."
Among the testimonies, according to the statement, are the continuation of rape and sexual assaults, as the Ofer camp administration deliberately immobilizes the detainee’s limbs by repeatedly inserting a stick into the detainee’s anus to the point that the detainee feels suffocated, according to one detainee’s description. The more the detainee’s pain and screaming increases, the more the guards deliberately move the stick.
They also deliberately rape the detainee in front of other detainees, with the aim of breaking him in front of his comrades and spreading more terror against them.
He added: "Through the cameras installed in the sections and rooms, they deliberately turn the cameras, which are the most prominent means of surveillance and control within the camps, into a tool for abuse. Any detainee seen on camera feigning a smile or any other behavior that the jailer deems a challenge, the repression units then either severely beat them to the point of unconsciousness, or impose collective punishment on the detainees through brutal searches and extreme humiliation.
This is in addition to the severe beatings that take place in the courtyards, and during the so-called security checks (counting), where they are forced to sleep on their stomachs and are subjected to severe beatings.
In the Negev Prison, specifically in the tent section, the statement reported that conditions are no less tragic and difficult.
The prison administration deliberately blackmails and humiliates detainees by forcing them to use the bathroom. They are forced to use a bucket to relieve themselves.
Moreover, the utensils provided to detainees remain with them for long periods and are not replaced, resulting in an extremely unpleasant odor, yet they are still used.
Still, scabies is widespread among detainees due to poor hygiene and weak immune systems.
Furthermore, blankets and mattresses have become essential means of transmitting the disease, as some detainees lack mattresses and have been forced to cut off parts of other detainees' mattresses to sleep on. Since November 2024, the prison administration has not allowed detainees to change their clothes, all of which has contributed to the continued spread of scabies. Meanwhile, the prison administration refuses to provide them with any form of treatment.
He added: "The prison administration also continues to carry out beatings and abuse. Many detainees have sustained injuries as a result of this.
Even when they were taken out for visits, they confirmed that they were subjected to beatings and abuse, including the tightening of handcuffs on their hands. Based on the testimony of lawyers who visited the detainees, all of them suffer from severe and obvious weight loss as a result of the ongoing starvation.
In this context, the Prisoners' Commission and the Prisoners' Club affirmed that the occupation continues its genocide and crimes in full view of the world, without any real change that contributes to halting the genocide and comprehensive aggression against our people, one of the forms of which is the ongoing crimes against detainees.
Indeed, the passage of more time since the genocide has continued means that the state of impotence suffered by human rights organizations has gone beyond this expression.
It has become our duty to question the viability of a human rights system, given the expanding concept of the state of exception enjoyed by the Israeli occupation at the international level.
It is noteworthy that the number of Gaza detainees recognized by the prison system until the beginning of April 2025 was (1,747) detainees, and this number does not include detainees held in camps affiliated with the occupation army.
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