GAZA, (PIC)-- The prisoners' center for studies has accused the Israeli prison authority (IPA) of maltreating Palestinian captives in Israeli jails, asserting that it had broken the records in violating the simplest human rights of the Palestinian prisoners.
The center quoted former Palestinian captive Abu Ali Yatta as confirming that the IPA had turned life of the Palestinian captives into intolerable hell, and keeps on punishing and imposing more restrcoitions on them on daily basis.
Yatta was released from jail a couple of days ago after he spent more than 20 years in Israeli jails.
Another Palestinian captive in the Israeli Ramon prison where he spent nearly 20 years of his life has confirmed to the center, through telephone contact, that life inside the Israeli prisons became intolerable, and that he anticipates a very strong reaction from the Palestinian captives with the aim to preserve their dignity and their legal rights.
Head of the center Ra'fat Hamdona confirmed that the IPA became more aggressive on the captives and their visiting relatives in clear violation to international conventions and human rights laws.
He enumerated a number of IPA violations against the captives, including arbitrary transfer, confiscating personal belongings of the captives, storming rooms of the prisoners and using dogs in searching their private properties, lack of medicine and proper medical treatment, denying them their religious rights like prayer, depriving them of their food allowances, imposing high fines against them for trivial mistakes, and putting more restrictions on their families during visits among other human rights violations.
In this regard, Hamdona urged all international societies and institutions concerned with the Palestinian captives to consolidate and to double their efforts in support of the detainees, and to pressure the Israeli occupation government to release all Palestinian captives who were held without charges, and to modify living conditions of the rest of the prisoners while inside jails.
He also called on Palestinian factions to overcome their political disputes and to unite for the prisoners' cause, inviting legal institutions to file lawsuits against the Israeli occupation authority in the international court of justice.
In the same context, Palestinian female prisoners were reportedly facing the same harsh conditions in Israeli jails as confirmed by the lawyer of the Prisoner's Club who visited a number of the female detainees in the Israeli Damon prison.
The PC lawyer quoted captive Dua'a Al-Jayyosi of the West Bank city of Tulkarem as describing life inside Israeli jails as "very harsh", stressing that they couldn’t talk to their visiting relatives due to some hindrances on the part of the IPA.
Another Palestinian prisoner Amal Juma of Nablus city revealed she was complaining of severe stomach ache, but the IPA personnel refused to attend to her that, according to the lawyer, badly affected her health condition.
A number of female captives in Israeli jails were reportedly suffering of chronic diseases but the IPA refused to assist them.
According to Palestinian records, more than 129 Palestinian prisoners were perished in Israeli jails either due deliberate medical neglect or under torture in Israeli interrogation centers.
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