Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission: 115 prisoners living in catastrophic conditions in Etzion Detention Center

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission warned that 115 prisoners are suffering extreme catastrophic conditions in Etzion prison, as a result of the Israeli occupation’s aggressive practices against them.

The Commission said in a statement today, reported by Wafa New Agency that the occupation forces raid the cells, assault the prisoners, and beat on the iron doors at night to prevent them from sleeping, in addition to torture, death threats, and the use of food as a tool of torture and slow killing against the prisoners, whose bodies have become emaciated and weak making the  impact of diseases on them extreme.

The Commission pointed out the deteriorating health conditions of the prisoner Amer Bajawi, who is detained in Etzion, as he suffers from serious wounds in his neck, chest, foot and face, as a result of being hit by occupation bullets in the city of Jenin, while the occupation authorities deliberately neglect him medically at a time when he needs intensive medical care to complete his treatment.

Raghda Sawas