After the Al-Aqsa Flood: Occupation Imposes "Retaliatory" Measures Against Prisoners
 

Monday - October 16, 2023

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club announced on Wednesday that Israeli occupation authorities have imposed arbitrary and punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners since the start of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" battle. These actions, it said, were implemented under orders from the Israeli military leadership supervising the prisons.

In a statement, the club said that Israeli prison authorities "imposed intensified and comprehensive isolation on Palestinian prisoners since the outbreak of clashes between Palestinian factions and the Israeli military."

The statement noted that additional isolation measures had been imposed on prisoners since last Saturday as part of a "series of retaliatory measures" in what it described as a "crime of collective punishment."

The punitive measures include:

• Closing all prison sections and removing television access for prisoners.
• Increasing jamming devices and halting family visits for prisoners.
• Canceling previously scheduled family visits for the week.
• Cutting off electricity and water in prisoners' sections intermittently.
• Withdrawing food supplies from prisoners' sections.
• Denying prisoners access to the prison yard.
• Preventing sick prisoners from being transferred to clinics.
• Issuing direct threats to prisoners affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
• Conducting raids by suppression forces on Damon, Negev, Ofer, and Megiddo prisons.
• Isolating prisoners and transferring them to solitary cells, including women’s representative prisoner Marah Bakir.
• Mass transferring prisoners from Gaza from the Negev Prison to Nafha Prison.

Since last Saturday, the Al-Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian resistance factions have launched thousands of rockets toward Israeli cities, towns, and settlements. Israel’s Iron Dome defense system has failed to intercept a significant portion of these rockets, resulting in casualties, injuries, and the destruction of various structures. The rocket fire has also repeatedly disrupted air travel at Ben Gurion Airport.

Source: Al Jazeera + Deutsche Presse-Agentur