Prisoners' Commission: Number of Female Detainees in Israeli Prisons Rises to 88, Including 24% Under Administrative Detention
The number of Palestinian female detainees in Israeli occupation prisons has risen to 88, 24% of them held under administrative detention, amid harsh conditions and punitive measures.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs confirmed on Monday evening that the number of Palestinian female detainees held in Israeli occupation prisons has risen to 88, amid escalation in the arrest and pursuit campaigns waged by occupation forces against our people in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the occupied interior.
The commission explained in a statement that the occupation authorities continue to expand the scope of arbitrary administrative detention against women, with female detainees issued administrative detention orders accounting for about 24% of the total number of female detainees, comprising new orders or renewals of existing orders without charge or trial.
The commission noted that female detainees held in Damon prison and other Israeli detention and interrogation centres are subjected to harsh detention conditions and tightened punitive measures, including denial of treatment, deliberate medical neglect, starvation policy, confiscation of basic necessities, along with strip searches and repressive raids on their rooms.
The commission warned of the danger of the continuation of these crimes and fascist practices against female and male detainees in occupation detention centres, calling on human rights and international institutions to break their silence and intervene urgently to pressure the Israeli entity's authorities to immediately halt the administrative detention policy and release all female and male detainees.
