RAMALLAH: The PLO Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority has revealed that female Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, particularly those arrested since October 7, are facing inhumane conditions in Israeli jails.

According to the Authority’s lawyers, incarcerated Palestinian women from Gaza are enduring torture and abuse from the first moment of arrest, including beatings, insults, strip searches, solitary confinement, and deprivation of basic rights.

All female prisoners from Gaza undergo degrading treatment, it added, including the confiscation of their clothes replaced with summer attire. They also face relentless physical assaults, insults, and verbal abuse.

A shocking incident involved an elderly woman, aged 80, from Gaza who arrived at the Israeli prison of Damon, despite walking with a cane; she was brought to prison without a hijab, with her face covered in blood, said the authority.

In another heartbreaking account, a Gaza mother, detained while she was accompanying her four young chi
ldren, was forced to hand them over to an unknown man before being taken away by Israeli soldiers, uncertain about her children’s fate.

The Authority stressed that the documented testimonies represent only a fraction of the reality, as prison authorities purposefully isolate Gaza detainees from others and the outside world, allowing them to continue their violations without scrutiny.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA