Palestinian female detainees at the Israeli Damon jail have been enduring dire detention conditions and subjected to harsh torture tactics a human rights body has warned.
According to lawyer Hanan al-Khatib from the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission Palestinian women and girls at Damon prison have been made to endure excruciating psycho-physical torture.
The lawyer said the Israeli prison authorities continue to exert every possible effort to isolate the detainees and sever their ties with the outside world by preventing them from reaching out to their families and denying them prison visits.
The lawyer also sounded the alarm over the strip-searches verbal assaults exhausting transfers to courts medical neglect and overcrowding among others policies perpetrated against the Palestinian female detainees.
22 Palestinian women and girls are incarcerated in two cells in Damon lock-up.
