Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Etzion lock-up sounded distress signals as heavy downpours flooded prison cells.
Lawyer Hussein al-Sheikh from the prisoners and ex-prisoners committee said torrential rains flowed to prison cells through the holes and cracks in the walls and rooftops.
He denounced the apathy maintained by the Israeli prison service as regards the prisoners’ appeals for urgent intervention.
He added that the prisoners have been enduring sleepless nights as their clothes and blankets have been covered with rainwater.
The lawyer called on the human rights bodies and humanitarian institutions namely the Red Cross to urgently intervene and push the Israeli occupation authorities to take serious measures so as to protect the detainees from the life-threatening fallouts of the wintry weather in the Etzion jail among other Israeli penitentiaries.
