WEST
BANK – On Tuesday, the
Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs said that 100 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Etzion detention
facility are suffering from catastrophic conditions, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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In a
press statement, the commission pointed out that the prisoners are subjected to
random cell raids, taken out, and
searched naked. Whoever objects is
beaten. Israeli guards also knock on the doors with sticks at night to
prevent the prisoners from sleeping.
The
commission also drew attention to the deprivation of prisoners of bathing for
more than 15 days.
The
Etzion detention center is located in the south of the occupied West Bank,
within the Gush Etzion settlement, and is listed among the worst detention
centers. The commission added that the facility’s conditions were miserable
even before
October 7, 2023.
In a
statement to Al-Mamlaka TV, Qadura Fares, the head of the Palestinian
Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, said that the Etzion
detention facility is not a detention facility in the strict sense of the word
but rather a camp for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
He
pointed out that 20–25 prisoners were detained at most before the war, whereas
now it includes larger numbers. Fares added that since the start of the Israeli
war on Gaza, the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in the facility has been
inhumane and brutal.
“Whoever
looks at the nature of the procedures taken against the prisoners, whether
beating them, assaulting them, starving them, or confiscating their clothes and
blankets, and what results from that of a constant feeling of extreme cold,
crowding, and overcrowding inside the rooms and cells—all these things, if we
think about them, we find that they will not benefit the occupation army or its
security institutions, so one explanation remains, which is revenge, hatred,
fascism, and policies adopted by the
Israeli occupation government,” Fares
stated.
Regarding
the matter of a prisoner exchange, Fares pointed out that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IOF tried to free the Israeli captives in
Gaza through military operations, killing, and destruction, but they failed.
“In the
end, as is clear, the issue of prisoners will be a mandatory passage, as there
is no solution or way out except by sitting at the negotiating table,” he said.
Fares
hopes that these efforts will lead to a cessation of the war in Gaza.
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