Al-Zaghari told Al Jazeera that testimonies from released prisoners reveal beatings, insults, and threats of rape.
He added that the arrest of Palestinian women and girls has increased and that they face torture, ill-treatment, and intentional neglect. Beaten brutally
Jaafar Obayat, who recently left Megiddo Prison after 17 years, told Al Jazeera that in the days after October 7, prisoners were assaulted and clothes, necessities, food, blankets, TVs, radios, tables and chairs were confiscated.
That prisoners had such items in their cells in the first place was the fruit of struggles by prisoners over decades.
In Negev Prison, prisoner Thaer Abu Asab was killed simply for asking a guard if there was a ceasefire, a released prisoner, who requested anonymity, told Al Jazeera. He added that prisoners were beaten in their cells near-daily.
When Abu Asab asked his question, the response was an ominous “I’ll show you,” then the guard called a whole unit into Abu Asab’s cell. They beat him with iron rods all over, including his face, and left him lying there.
The prisoners were afraid to ask for medical attention, but eventually, unable to watch him suffer, they shouted until a nurse came to examine him. Two days later, they were told he had died.
Everyone in Abu Asab’s cell, the anonymous prisoner said, was beaten with iron rods after that.
The PPS has recorded thousands of injuries – fractures, bruises and worse – among imprisoned Palestinians who get no treatment. Eight prisoners have died in the last four months after being beaten and not treated, like Mohammed al-Sabar, who died in Ofer prison on February 8