The Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy has called on international institutions to carry out urgent visits to Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, particularly those from the Gaza Strip detained in camps, interrogation centers, and various prisons across Israel.
The Center stated that around 1,300 detainees from the Gaza Strip have, for two years, been enduring extremely harsh living conditions marked by oppression and humiliation due to a long series of continuous violations, abuse, repression, and deprivation of their most basic human rights guaranteed by all international norms and conventions.
The Center pointed out that most prisoners from Gaza have been denied, over the past two years, all forms of legal communication with their lawyers and social contact with their families. All their rights as detainees and prisoners have been confiscated, particularly those related to medical and living conditions inside the prisons, leading to worsening physical and psychological health situations.
The Center emphasized the need for international institutions to play a serious and effective role in exposing and clarifying what is being committed against these prisoners—or at the very least—to pressure the occupying power to reduce the severity of the abusive practices that have become a routine part of the Israeli prison authorities’ operations. It noted that every delay or failure by international institutions only encourages the occupying state to further escalate its brutality against the prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, which have become infamous for their cruelty and sadism.
