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Palestinian prisoners’ groups say Israel using scabies as tool of torture

The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club have warned of an impending “health disaster” in the Negev prison, in the occupied West Bank, amid the ongoing spread of scabies among prisoners.

The prisoner rights institutions warned that hundreds of detainees were exhibiting health symptoms from the parasitic infestation, as Israeli authorities were “deliberately depriving prisoners of treatment” and using it as a “tool to torture them physically and psychologically.”

They added that the Israeli authorities were seeking “to kill prisoners by any possible means”, including facilitating the spread of the skin disease by denying prisoners access to showers, clean clothes or washing machines.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, among other organisations, have documented detailed allegations of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated against Palestinians inside Israeli prisons, including sexual abuse of women and men.

We have documented cases of sexual violence in Israeli prisons, Palestinian activist says

Palestinian women's rights activist Joharah Baker is among five women who are at the UN in New York this week to speak about gendered violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. They claim Israeli forces are using sexual violence as a “weapon of genocide”. Baker tells FRANCE 24 that they have documented cases of sexual violence against women in Israeli prisons from Gaza and the West Bank.

 

Top EU diplomat: Crisis in Gaza, occupied territory worsening

The EU’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, says the escalating crisis in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory “is deteriorating by the hour with unbearable suffering for civilians”.

“No one seems able or willing to stop this,” he posted on X.

Borrell condemned the rise in violence from “extremist settlers”, who he said “spread destruction” in areas such as el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank, and emphasised the urgent need for accountability.

“Israel has the duty to protect all civilians and to hold the perpetrators accountable,” he added.

The situation in Gaza and in the Occupied Territories is deteriorating by the hour, w/ unbearable sufferings for civilians. No one seems to be able or willing to stop this.

Violent settlers spread destruction, hospitals are besieged, @UNRWA's activities more & more at risk. 1/4

— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) November 4, 2024