Palestine: Retaliatory Practices Against Prisoners Escalate in Zionist Occupation Jails
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs announced an escalation in retaliatory practices carried out by the Zionist occupation against Palestinian prisoners in its jails, warning that these measures pose a real and serious threat to their lives.
In a statement reported by the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), the Commission said that prisoners are being subjected to all forms of beating and torture in a frenzied, unethical, and inhumane manner.
The Commission explained that it had obtained important and dangerous information about conditions in Nafha Prison over recent weeks, based on first-hand testimonies from prisoners who were released a few days ago. They described the situation as “bloody,” stressing that the assaults were harsher and more brutal than those they endured at the beginning of the aggression against the Palestinian people, and that there were no real reasons or justifications for this escalation.
According to the statement, prisoner leader Muslama Thabet was among the main targets during recent raids. He was subjected to severe beatings to his chest and limbs and sprayed with pepper gas until he lost consciousness, after which he was thrown to the ground without regard for his condition.
The Commission added that prison authorities later imposed further punitive measures against Thabet, including confiscating blankets from him and other prisoners, denying him access to diabetes medication, and openly threatening him by placing him within what they described as a circle of direct targeting.
The Commission called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and international human rights and humanitarian organizations to immediately visit Zionist occupation prisons and detention centers, to assess the grave reality imposed on Palestinian prisoners and to put an end to the occupation’s unchecked abuses against them.
