A human rights activist warns of the occupation’s continued policy of “slow killing” of prisoners

Palestinian institutions concerned with prisoner affairs warned on Tuesday of the accelerating rate of Palestinian prisoners’ deaths in Israeli prisons. This phenomenon is unprecedented in decades, and confirms, according to them, that the Israeli prison system is continuing to implement a “slow killing policy” against Palestinian prisoners.

The Commission of Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a joint statement that not a month goes by without a new martyr falling inside prisons. They noted that the number of martyrs is likely to rise, given the detention of thousands of prisoners in harsh conditions that lack the minimum necessities of life.

The statement explained that prisoners are subjected to systematic violations, including torture, starvation, physical and sexual assault, and deliberate medical neglect. This is in addition to the spread of infectious diseases such as scabies, and the imposition of unprecedented policies of deprivation and deprivation.

The statement also noted the field executions of dozens of prisoners, explaining that the images of the bodies of martyrs recently handed over after the ceasefire provide damning evidence of the level of field crimes perpetrated against them by the occupation forces.