Palestinian Prisoners’ Commission: The occupation escalated its attacks against female prisoners from the Gaza Strip

The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has escalated its repressive practices against female prisoners in the Damoun prison, especially those who were arrested from the Gaza Strip during the Israeli ongoing aggression against the Strip since the seventh of last October.

Wafa Agency quoted the Commission as saying in a statement today: The occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign against Palestinian women in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the territories occupied in 1948, and the Gaza Strip, and all of them were subjected to torture and abuse from the moment of arrest and inside the prison, especially female prisoners from the Gaza Strip, where the frequency of these attacks increases on a daily basis, in addition to the solitary confinement of a number of them.

The Prisoners’ Commission explained that the attacks on female prisoners are only a very small part of what the Commission has been able to discover, and that what is hidden is greater, as the occupation authorities deliberately isolate Gaza’s female prisoners from the rest of the female prisoners and from the outside world completely.

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