Issued by The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club 

 

 The Israeli Prison Service escalates its retaliatory measures on a daily basis and attacks detainees with intensive beat and deprivation of medical treatment

 

 Ramallah

 

 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that the IPS Seeks to impose and create retaliatory measures against detainees, to implement the policy of collective punishment.

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club illustrated that the IPS tended to prevent detainees from the basic needs ( water, food, medical care and electricity), in addition, they have been attacked by intensive beating through storming their sections.

 

 One of the most dangerous procedures is denying detainees’ right to medical care and refusing to move them to hospitals. 

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club stated that there is an actual fear of disease spread due to refusing throwing waste from cells, cutting water for long periods. Moreover, IPS confiscated the cloths of detainees and kept only one piece for each detainee, and prevented them from using bathrooms that have shower.

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club confirmed that detainees are living difficult conditions and being subjected to the most intensive collective punishment since decades. The number of detainees raised due to the escalation in daily arrests, which led to overcrowding in all prisons.

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club called on the ICRC to put an end to these crimes.