Palestinian Minister: israeli Jails More Horrible than Nazis’ Dungeons

Palestinian Minister for Captives Affairs Ataollah Abu Sabah said Palestinian prisoners are suffering harsh and inhuman conditions in israeli jails, and stressed that israeli prisons are much more horrible than those of the Nazis’.

Speaking told FNA, Sabah said that almost 4,400 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in israeli jails, and added that those prisoners who are sentenced to long terms of imprisonment are kept in central prisons whose conditions are gravely inhume and terrible.

“These prisons lack sanitation and are overcrowded,” he said, and added that israel is using the harshest methods of suppression against Palestinian prisoners in these jails.

He added that conditions in Ketziot Prison, where many Palestinian political prisoners are held, are even harsher than the conditions tolerated by prisoners in the Nazi Germany.

Sabah added that prisoners in Ketziot are not safe from night torture.

Palestinian prisoners have always voiced complaint about the torturing and mistreatment of prisoners by israeli guards.

In July, more than 20 Palestinian prisoners in the israeli Negev jail were poisoned after eating meals served in the prison’s canteen, prisoners reported.

They explained that after eating burger sandwiches from the canteen the prisoners suffered from diarrhea and vomiting after which they were carried to the prison’s clinic but the administration did not tell them about their condition.

They asked the Red Cross to intervene and demand their transfer to hospital for adequate checkup.

Also in July, thousands of Palestinian prisoners in israel staged a mass hunger strike to defend prisoners’ rights and protest against israeli guards’ inhumane behavior.