Escalated retaliatory and aggressive policies against Palestinian women held in Damoun prison

December 8, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs warned of the escalated retaliatory and aggressive policies practiced against Palestinian women held in Damoun prison, besides the inhumane and unethical treatment pursued by jailers, who try to harm them on a physical and psychological level.

The Commission emphasized that the visitations managed by the commission’s legal team to Damoun prison documented the intensity of the crimes committed against women, as they focused on psychological abuse represented in threats of rape, strip searches, curses, beating and starvation.
Moreover, they are deprived of clothes, covers, sanitizers ,feminine hygiene products, ignoring their health conditions and procrastinating in providing medicine.
The commission pointed out that the collective punishment is implemented persistently, as detainees are periodically banned from having a shower and prevented from getting out to the prison’s yard.
Any inquiry by detainees may lead to an incursion, abuse and torture.

The commission called on feminine rights organizations, associations and local and international to collaborate to expose the constant violations practiced against Palestinians women detainees to form a public opinion that help in ending their suffering.