JENIN, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs revealed new testimonies from three prisoners held in Ofer detention facility, documenting detention conditions described as “among the harshest,” ranging from medical neglect and physical assaults to daily room raids.
According to the commission’s lawyer, in a report published Sunday, prisoner Ahmed Adel Harish from Beitunia, west of Ramallah, detained since August 31, 2025, suffers from severe stomach pain believed to be caused by a bacterial infection, yet he receives only painkillers.
She noted that the doctor is often hours late, and sometimes does not show up at all, while deliberately calling out to prisoners provocatively from behind the window, saying: “Who wants to die?”
Harish also reported that his room was raided collectively after soldiers broke a nail clipper, followed by assaults on prisoners and taking them out to the yard in restraints for hours.
A female soldier was also brought in under the pretext of receiving complaints, after which Harish was summoned and punished for his complaint with either an administrative detention order or humiliating measures.
Meanwhile, prisoner Naji Sharif Mahmoud Awadallah, 24, also from Beitunia and detained since August 28, 2025, with a four-month administrative detention order, gave a similar account describing the camp as extremely harsh: continuous beatings, daily searches and raids, scarce food, no hygiene, and systematic sleep deprivation by removing mattresses at 6 am.
In the same context, prisoner Ezzedine Ahmed Khudour, 20, from Biddu northwest of Jerusalem, suffers from a foot injury he had been receiving treatment for before his arrest, yet has not received any medication or medical follow-up for 70 days.
He confirmed that the detention cells lack basic necessities, forcing prisoners to drink water from the bathroom tap due to the absence of cups. Khudour is a former prisoner who was re-arrested on September 2, 2025.
The commission said that these testimonies reflect a dangerously deteriorating humanitarian situation inside Ofer Camp, renewing its calls for urgent intervention and an end to the continuous violations against prisoners.
Isolation of Jamal Abu Al-Hayja
For its part, the Asra Media Office confirmed that the occupation’s continued isolation of prisoner and leader Jamal Abu al-Hayja, 66, despite his deteriorating health, represents a clear insistence on a policy of revenge and slow assassination against a symbol of the prisoners’ movement.
In a Sunday statement, the office noted that the occupation has refused to release Abu al-Hayja in every prisoner exchange deal, and has kept him imprisoned since August 28, 2002, under a sentence of nine life terms plus 20 years.
The office held the occupation fully responsible for his life, stressing that the continued imposition of harsh measures on him, despite his age and worsening condition, constitutes a full act of slow killing and a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions, which require protection for prisoners, especially the sick and elderly.
It also urged international human rights and humanitarian organizations to intervene urgently to secure Abu Al-Hayja’s release, end the suffering of sick prisoners, and ensure their legal and humanitarian protection inside prisons.
