Prisoners’ Affairs Commission: The international community must stand by female prisoners in the occupation jails

The commission explained in a statement today that female prisoners are suffering from catastrophic conditions that have escalated since the start of the aggression against Gaza Strip on October 7, as the occupation escalated systematic arrests of women, including minors, students, wives of prisoners, martyrs and mothers, some of whom are elderly.

The Authority touched on some of what women detainees in “Damoun” suffer in terms of beatings, abuse, psychological and physical torture, solitary confinement, strip searches, death threats, pulling their hair and dragging them to the ground, imposing collective punishments, a policy of deliberate medical neglect, and isolation from the outside world through deprivation of family visits and prevention of the Red Cross from visiting them, in addition to the occupation deliberately contaminating drinking water with dust and dirt and mixing it with high levels of chlorine.

The Authority called on international human rights and humanitarian institutions to take immediate action to pressure the occupation to stop its crimes against male and female prisoners, which constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity that require accountability.

It is noteworthy that the occupation holds 81 female prisoners in its detention centers, most of them in “Damoun,” including 60 from various areas in the West Bank, 3 from Jerusalem, 6 from the Gaza Strip, and 9 from the territories occupied in 1948.