NAZARETH, (PIC)
The extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, has extended his visit ban order against Palestinian prisoners for the tenth consecutive month since October 7, 2023, according to the Israeli Maariv newspaper.
Maariv revealed on Friday that since the beginning of the war, Palestinian prisoners have not been visited at all, which comes as part of the Israeli policy of tightening restrictions on the Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.
Ben Gvir had previously ordered imposing tightened restrictions on Palestinian prisoners by pursuing several punitive measures that included depriving them of adequate food and other basic needs, and repeatedly dispersing them between prisons, and following procedures of repression and torture against them.
Palestinian prisoner organizations, institutions and lawyers say that Ben Gvir’s orders have exacerbated the already worsening detention conditions in Israeli prisons, including cutting off water and electricity, reducing the time allocated for the use of toilets, and banning prisoners from taking showers, which all have led to the spread of diseases, especially skin infections.
