RAMALLAH, January 5, 2026 (WAFA) – The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission confirmed an escalation in the enforcement of retaliatory policies against Palestinian detainees at Nafha prison, warning that these measures pose a grave threat to their lives, as all forms of beatings and torture were inflicted on them in a frenzied, unethical, and inhumane manner.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Commission said it had obtained serious and dangerous information about conditions at Nafha prison over recent weeks, based on firsthand testimonies from detainees released days ago.

They depicted the conditions as bloody, stressing that the onslaught against them was more severe and harsher than the assaults they endured at the beginning of the aggression against the Palestinian people, without any real reasons or justifications.

The Commission explained that the assaults targeted detainees broadly during repeated raids on sections and cells. It added that detainee Masalma Thabet was cited as a particular case due to the severity of the abuse inflicted on him during the recent incursions. In one incident, he was severely beaten on the chest and limbs and sprayed with pepper spray until he lost consciousness, after which he was thrown to the ground without regard for his condition.

It further said that the prison administration subsequently imposed a series of punitive measures on detainee Thabet, including confiscating his mattress and blankets amid severe winter conditions, denying him access to diabetes medication, and openly threatening him by placing him under continued targeting.

The Commission called on the International Committee of the Red Cross, along with human rights and humanitarian institutions, to immediately head to the occupation’s prisons and detention centers to ascertain the harsh and dangerous conditions imposed on Palestinian detainees, and to end Israel’s exclusive control over them.

T.R.