Each female prisoner in Damon is allowed only 7 slices of bread per day. for a couple of seconds

The Israeli occupation authorities hold the majority of Palestinian female prisoners in Damon Prison, which historically has been used to detain Palestinian women. Inside this prison, female detainees face harsh and difficult conditions due to the collective isolation policy imposed by the authorities on prisoners, both men and women.

Violations and crimes against the female prisoners in Damon Prison do not cease. In fact, conditions have worsened since the transfer of about sixty minors from Megiddo Prison to Damon Prison.

It is believed that some of these minors may have scabies, as indicated by reports from inside the prison. This suspicion is supported by the fact that the prison guards wear medical gloves when dealing with the minors.

As for the female prisoners, the prison administration provided each with one winter tracksuit, promising to provide another one later so that each prisoner would have two winter outfits. In recent days, the prisoners also received three sets of underwear each.

Regarding medical visits, the female prisoners are taken to the clinic regularly. They receive a supply of chlorine once a week. However, there is no hand soap available. Instead, every day each prisoner is given a small sachet of shampoo to use for multiple purposes. Moreover, there is only one small comb in the women’s section.

In recent days, the prison’s suppression units targeted the female prisoners, forcing them out into the courtyard under the pretext of repairing the rooms. The rooms were thoroughly searched. The prisoners were not physically beaten, but they were made to kneel on the ground, blindfolded, and handcuffed. They were also denied their break (fura) on the day of the crackdown.

The prison administration covered the windows and doors with plastic, leaving the rooms with no ventilation, making them feel like graves. With the doors and windows closed, communication among the rooms was lost. The only solace for the prisoners is the Qur’an. The open windows are fixed in place with screws so that the prisoners cannot close them.

Rooms are typically searched after midnight or at three in the morning. At ten in the evening, the lights are turned off and then turned on again at six the following morning.

As for the food, quantities remain insufficient to satisfy the prisoners’ hunger. Breakfast typically consists of two tablespoons of yogurt and either cucumber or tomato. On Saturdays, they receive olives and half a cup of tea and a spoon of jam.

Lunch is usually chickpea soup with rice, or vegetable soup with rice, or red or black lentils. At lunch, the prisoners are also given tomatoes or cucumbers. On Saturdays, they receive schnitzel for lunch, tuna twice a week, sausages on Wednesdays, steak with bulgur on Tuesdays, and coarse bulgur on Fridays. Eggs are given twice at lunch and dinner on Fridays. Each prisoner receives only seven slices of bread per day.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities released today, around noon, the prisoner Zainab Sajadiya from Bethlehem after she spent a year in the Israeli prisons. She is the mother of detainees Muhannad Qawar and Rami Qawar, who have been detained since the beginning of the war.

With the release of prisoner Sajadiya, the number of female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons today stands at 94, including four from Gaza.