Israeli jailers ‘deliberately’ infected Palestinians’ food with viruses: Ex-abductee
A Palestinian, who has recently been released from Israel’s notorious Ofer prison, says the jail’s administration “deliberately” infected the abductees’ food with viruses.
Speaking upon his release on Saturday, the abductee, whose name was not mentioned, said that in addition to torturing Palestinian abductees and amputating their limbs, Israeli jailers caused severe illnesses among them.
He also described the Ofer prison as a true “graveyard of prisons.”
“For six months, we suffered from boils, scabies and all kinds of skin diseases,” the freed Palestinian inmate added.
“The Israeli Officer saw us crawling, unable to walk due to the lack of food and medicine. But he didn’t care.”
There are 10,400 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, not including those arrested in Gaza during the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.
Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards, depriving them of adequate healthcare, food, water and sleep. They have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, abuse, repression and medical neglect.
Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to the abductees by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.
In November 2024, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) was following policies that left nearly 25 percent of Palestinian detainees with scabies.
According to the report, human rights groups filed a petition with Israel’s High Court, stating that the IPS has failed to contain the disease.
Overcrowding in Israeli prisons fueled the outbreak, with conditions worsening during Israel’s Gaza onslaught.
The Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives of freeing captives and eliminating the Hamas resistance group despite killing at least 48,264 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
After 15 months of genocide, Israel accepted Hamas’ longstanding negotiation terms under the Gaza truce, which began on January 19.
The ceasefire consists of three phases, each lasting 42 days. In phase one - the current phase - a total of 33 Israeli captives will be released in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian abductees held in the regime’s jails.
So far, Hamas has released 19 Israeli captives and five Thai nationals in return for 985 Palestinian abductees.
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