In a communiqué, the organization stressed that 31 women are crammed into four cramped rooms, lacking the most basic necessities of life.

It warned that they suffer from severe food shortages and receive only five slices of bread per day. They are also affected by the lack of hygiene supplies and clothing, he said.

To this must be added poor health conditions, the Office stressed, accusing the prison authorities of denying them basic medical services.

Last month, the Palestinian Ministry of Women’s Affairs published a report documenting the mistreatment and humiliation to which women are subjected in the neighboring nation’s prisons.

Palestinian women detained in Israeli prisons suffer systematic violence by their captors, it denounced.

Israeli prison authorities have intensified their repressive policies against Palestinian women through “torture, sexual violence and forced disappearance as systematic tools,” he warned.

More than 510 were detained since the beginning of the current cycle of violence, October 7, 2023.

Minister Mona al-Khalili denounced the pattern of mistreatment and gender-based violations in the context of the military occupation.

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