Gaza: The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society have held the Israeli prison administration fully responsible for the safety of thousands of detainees in Ofer Prison. This comes in response to a large-scale crackdown carried out by the Israeli authorities inside the prison.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the two organizations issued a joint statement on Sunday evening, urging the international human rights community to take immediate action against the systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison authorities. These alleged crimes include torture, medical neglect, starvation, and repeated violent raids, utilized as deliberate policies to oppress and abuse detainees.
The organizations emphasized that such measures have led to the deaths of detainees, citing the situation during the genocide in Gaza as particularly dire. This period has been described as the deadliest in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement.
Currently, more than 10,000 Palestinians are reported to be held in Israeli prisons. This figure excludes detainees from Gaza who were apprehended following the ground Israeli invasion of the enclave.
