‘Torture and starvation’: Israeli forces detained 550 Palestinian women since Gaza genocide launched

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has released a statement on the latest situation of female Palestinians currently behind bars in Israeli jails and detention centers.

In the statement released on Monday, the advocacy group said at least 545 women had been abducted since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched a brutal military campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The figures exclude those kidnapped in the besieged Gaza Strip during the period.

At least 47 female prisoners are now being held in Israeli prisons, including a child and two pregnant women.

New shocking testimonies from Palestinian abductees have revealed the “systematic torture and abuse” against female prisoners.

Testimonies document repeated beatings, threats, starvation, and isolation against female prisoners.

Most of the charges filed against female abductees relate to “incitement”, and eight female prisoners are being held under the Israeli regimes so-called administrative detention policy plan.

Administrative detention is a procedure under which Palestinians are held without charge or trial.

Elsewhere in the statement, the rights group said women were being used as hostages to pressure those being persecuted.

The rights group also revealed shocking testimonies confirming that they were subjected to severe physical torture and systematic starvation inside prisons, which led some of them to lose half their body weight.

“It also poor and substandard food leads to illness and severe weight loss,” the group said.

Israel escalates violence against female Palestinian prisoners: Advocacy group

The Palestine Prisoners Studies Center says Israel has escalated its “aggressive” policies against female Palestinian abductees, urging the international community to break their silence and take an action on the regime’s crimes.

Shocking testimony

Palestinian media have also revealed a shocking testimony about the conditions of detention of a female prisoner who had been subjected to insults, curses, and death threats immediately after her abduction.

“At dawn, bread was forced into my mouth while I was blindfolded, and I was given a small amount of water through a tube,” she was quoted as saying. 

“While I was sleeping, a soldier hit me on the forehead to wake me up.”

The woman said she was also transferred to notorious Hasharon prison to face and experience more torture. 

In March, the Palestine Prisoners Studies Center said Israel had escalated its aggressive policies against female Palestinian abductees, urging the international community to break their silence and take an action on the regime’s crimes.

‘Slow death’: Palestinian testimonies reveal horrific abuses in Israeli prisons

New “shocking” testimonies from Palestinian detainees have revealed the “systematic torture and abuse” against Gazans held in Israel’s Naqab prison, amid the regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli rights group B’Tselem earlier said Israeli authorities were systematically abusing Palestinians in prison camps set up after the October 7 al-Aqsa operation, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault.

In the most recent of its strikes, Israel has killed at least 38 Palestinians since Monday dawn. Of them, 27 people were killed in northern Gaza.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Health Ministry of Gaza.

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