RAMALLAH, (PIC)
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) renewed its demand that the international human rights organizations take effective decisions to hold the Israeli occupation officials accountable for committing crimes against Palestinian prisoners who are subject to systematic torture crimes in Israeli prisons.
The PPS said in a statement on Monday that Israeli repression practices against prisoners have recently escalated significantly in the Israeli Ofer prison, as an extension of the policy of repression and raids, which reached its peak during the genocidal war on Gaza.
The PPS revealed part of the repression stories recorded in the prison, according to some statements obtained by prisoners’ attorneys during the last period, specifically, regarding the attack on prisoners on the evening of February 16, when the Israeli Metzada prison forces stormed several sections in the Ofer prison, using police dogs and stun grenades, and assaulted the prisoners, resulting in the injury of dozens of them.
The PPS indicated that the Israeli prison administration takes advantage of the cold weather as a tool to torture the prisoners, by refusing to allow entry of adequate clothes and appropriate covers, in addition to using a number of systematic tools and policies that fall within the framework of the crime of torture.
It quoted some of the Ofer prisoners, who have been recently subjected to torture, in addition to testimonies of the detainees who explained how their conditions worsened due to maltreatment in light of the extreme cold conditions.
The prisoner (D.P.) says, “The repression that is carried out in prisoners’ rooms has lately escalated. The last attack took place last Saturday, when jailers assaulted prisoners, beating them and wreaking havoc on the contents of their rooms,” noting that such attacks are carried out every two to three days.
In another testimony, the prisoner (G.M.), who suffers from an injury, added that the Metzada unit assaulted him and broke his walker, which he uses while heading to the clinic to receive treatment.
The PPS had previously highlighted how the prison administration turned prisoners’ injuries into a method of torture, elaborating that a number of injured detainees told their lawyers during visits that they were suffering from constant pain due to the lack of treatment, in light of the policy of medical negligence and the severe cold.
