RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs Commission said the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Etzion prison are held under awful detention conditions, noting that the number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons reached more than 9,500 by early March.
The Commission reported in a statement on Wednesday that the number of detainees in Etzion jail surged to 110 prisoners from different areas of the West Bank.
The Commission’s lawyer reported that the prison administration has intensified suppression operations against the detainees, reaching three times a week and targeting three to four rooms each time.
She added that the detainees have not had hot water to bathe for 45 days, under the pretext of the lack of diesel required to heat water, and accordingly most of them have not bathed for more than 40 days.
The Commission explained that during Ramadan the detainees were provided with only three slices of bread and a small spoon of jam or a small pot of yogurt for the Suhur meal, allocated for 12 detainees, noting that all the detainees who were visited by the lawyer were subjected to brutal beatings upon their arrest.
On the other hand, the Commission stated that the number of detainees in Israeli occupation prisons surged to more than 9,500 by March this year, including 350 children, 21 women, and 3,405 administrative detainees.
It explained that the number of Gaza detainees recognized by Israeli prison administration is 1,555 detainees, noting that this number does not include all Gaza detainees, particularly those held in Israeli occupation army’s camps.
