RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed the names of 51 women from Gaza who are held captive in the Israeli Damon Prison.
The Commission and Society said in a joint statement on Thursday, “The 51 detained women include elderly, adults, and children. This number is confined to the Gazan detained women in Damon prison only.”
The statement highlighted that the detained women in Damon are subjected to abuse and humiliation and are detained in tragic conditions.
“Like all detainees from Gaza, no accurate data about the women’s numbers, places of detention, or health conditions are known, because Israel has been committing the crime of enforced disappearance against the prisoners who are from Gaza. It has been banning teams affiliated with human rights organizations from visiting or obtaining information about their detention conditions. Israeli occupation authorities have also been preventing the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting them,” the statement added.
The statement pointed out that the only data announced by the Israeli Prison Service was the presence of 661 Gazan detainees classified as “unlawful combatants.”
Many testimonies, however, have been heard from recently released detainees about prisoners from Gaza, saying that they have been subjected to repeated rounds of torture and abuse, leaving marks on their bodies.
In the wake of October 7, and following the Israeli brutal aggression and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation has adopted certain military orders and made some legal amendments related to Gaza detainees, stipulating for intensifying detention conditions against them, especially denying them of their right to meet lawyers.
The statement said there are escalated concerns over the fate of Gaza detainees in light of the Israeli persistence in applying the enforced disappearance crime against them, despite all the demands and calls on international human rights bodies, especially the United Nations, to reveal the fate of Gaza detainees.
The total number of prisoners in Israeli prisons, until the end of December, has reached 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees mounted to 3,291.
