RAMALLAH, Thursday, January 4, 2023 (WAFA) – The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) have on Thursday revealed the names of 51 female detainees from Gaza, who are being held in the Israeli prison of Damoun.

The Commission and the PPS explained in a press statement that these names were the only names available until the end of last week, including elderly women and children, adding that the number of female detainees from Gaza is higher than this, but the clear data relates to the female detainees in Damoun prison only.

The statement indicated that only their names are available about the detainees, and some data provided by the detainees about their conditions, as they face abuse and humiliation over time, adding that they are detained in tragic conditions, like all Gaza detainees, as the institutions were not able to know any accurate data about their numbers, their places of detention, or their health conditions, because the occupation continues to practice the crime of enforced disappearance against them, and prevents legal teams affiliated with human rights institutions from visiting them and learning about their conditions, and also refuses to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit them.

The statement pointed out that the only data announced by the occupation prisons administration was the presence of 661 Gaza detainees, whom it classified as “unlawful combatants.”

It is noteworthy that many testimonies were carried by Gaza detainees, after their release, and reflected a high level of torture and abuse carried out by the occupation army against them, which was visible on their bodies immediately after their release, in addition to the occupation media revealing the killing of a group of Gaza detainees in the Sde Teman camp in the Beersheba area, without revealing their identities, noting that the occupation recently admitted to executing a Gaza detainee.

Since the beginning of its aggression against the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities have implemented some military orders and legal amendments related to Gaza detainees, which contribute to the implementation of more crimes against them, especially in light of their continued denial of access to a lawyer.

It is noteworthy that the total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,291.

K.T.