17/09/2025
🔴The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has published a new brief on the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners, based on lawyers’ visits to detainees during the first half of September 2025. Legal visits were conducted to the Naqab, Megiddo, Ramla, Ofer, Shatta, Gilboa, and Damon prisons and emcompassed men, women and child detainees.
Detainees across the majority of prisons are suffering from a rise in physical assault and attacks by "suppression units" using rubber-coated bullets, electric stun guns, batons, police dogs and other violent means. They also continue to from suffer severe scabies outbreak, systematic starvation with small portions of food being provided, denial of any medical treatment, and denial of a change of clothes, causing a severe weakening in the immunity of the detainees.
One testimony said: "The amount of food provided is not enough for a small child. Many times, we find bird droppings in the food, or footprints from the guards' shoes on pieces of vegetables, which are often rotten. Despite that, we are forced to eat it because there's no alternative. Once, we found remnants of dish soap in the tahini. Those who claim to be doctors or nurses carry out acts of humiliation against the sick. When we ask for treatment, they respond mockingly: 'Be glad you're still breathing,' or they say: 'Drink water with soap.’”
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