Prisoners in Al Naqab Prison were beaten and exposed to the most brutal forms of violations by the Israeli occupation authorities, with rubber bullets fired at them multiple times during the past week, Palestine's Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs (CDA) revealed in a statement on Sunday.
The prison's administration mixes the prisoners afflicted with a Sarcoptes infestation with healthy inmates to spread this infection as a form of punishment, in addition to taking advantage of the Holy Month of Ramadan to largely tighten restrictions on the prisoners by reducing food quantities, which were served in inferior quality, the statement continued.
The statement added that a prisoner from Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, is in critical health condition due to advanced scabies, with no treatment provided despite being seen at the prison clinic on March 10.
These practices come in the wake of Israel's systematic policy that aims to take revenge on the Palestinian prisoners, an act which flagrantly violates international laws, including the Geneva Conventions, which call for dealing with prisoners in a dignified and respectful way.
They likewise demonstrate Israel's unrelenting attempts to subdue the resolve of the prisoners through psychological and physical torture, methods that have been documented in numerous Palestinian and international human rights reports.
