Ramallah – Ma’an – The Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority said that the administration of the Negev Desert Prison deliberately intimidates and beats detainees while they are handcuffed and blindfolded, to discourage them from meeting with a lawyer and conveying the psychological and physical torture they have been subjected to, which has exceeded all limits, since October 7. / October 2023.

The Commission’s lawyer quoted the detainees, Musa Aql (39 years old) from Kafr Qaddum, and Majid Jarad (45 years old) from Tulkarm, as saying that the repressive forces took them out of their rooms and into a side yard before the visitation time at six in the morning, after handcuffing them, and assaulted them severely.

In the same context, the Commission’s lawyer said that the prison administration continues its retaliatory punishments against the Negev detainees, especially the deprivation of cleaning materials, which caused the spread of skin diseases among them, and their exposure to severe beatings and
insults, and the reduction of the ‘outburst’ time to one hour a day, and the deprivation of showering. For periods of up to two weeks, the quality and quantity of food is poor, and the meals a detainee receives for a week are barely enough for one day, and other punishments.

Detainees Nasser and Al-Ashqar are left prey to disease:

The authority indicated that the health condition of detainees Jihad Nasser and Yaqoub Al-Ashqar reflects the reality of how the prison administration deals with detainees in general, and sick ones in particular.

She explained that the detainee Nasser (26 years old) from Qalandiya camp suffers from a complex and serious skin disease, and his dry body shows spots, pimples, widespread redness, and infections. He cannot sleep, and no medicine or treatment was provided to him.

She pointed out that the detainee Al-Ashqar (34 years old) from Askar camp, who works as an officer in the intelligence service, suffers from colon and nerve problems, and needs a certain type of medicine, but
the prison administration refused that, and offered him an ineffective alternative medicine, which made him live. A state of health instability.

The Commission confirmed that the starvation policy against male and female detainees followed since October 7, and the accompanying deprivation of blankets, clothes, cleaning materials and sterilizers, the prevention of bathing, and the poor quality and quantity of food provided, has led to the spread of serious diseases, specifically skin diseases, which are now threatening the lives of… Real detainees.

Source: Maan News Agency