TULKARM, Monday, July 8 2024 (WAFA) – The Center for Defending Freedoms and Civil Rights (Hurriyat) said that the health conditions of Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prison of Ofer are getting worse due to the severe shortage of food supplies.

Hurriyat added in a statement that the detainees are still suffering from significant weight loss due to the lack of food and lack of diversity of foodstuffs.

 One of the detainees said that the Ofer prison administration suppressed the detainees in Section 26 last Monday due to  their protest against reducing the already small amount of food, noting that they were assaulted and beaten after they were forced to sleep on their stomachs in the section’s yard.

He pointed out that the amount of rice that was provided was 150 grams last week, and now it has become 100 grams for each detainee, and this quantity is very small and does not cover the daily need for calories required to practice the daily life of the detainee within his range of movement in the room.

Another detainee stated that more than 30 prisoners out of 220 in Section 26 suffered severe abdominal pain due to eating beans and lentils in a hard state, as a result of not cooking well, pointing out that these symptoms and severe pains affect prisoners for long periods.

It is noteworthy that detainees are suffered from skin diseases due to the lack of sufficient availability of hygiene materials and the lack of time to shower.

The Center for Defending Freedoms called on United Nations and its specialized organizations, especially the World Health Organization, to visit Palestinian detainees inside the occupation prisons.

It further called for the need to conduct specialized medical studies on the starvation policy committed by the Israeli prison administration and its future effects on the health conditions of about 9,000 detainees.

 Y.S