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Head of Prisoners Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Abdel Nasser Ferwana, reported Friday night that detainees from Gaza are being held in horrific conditions at Al Naqab.
Forty-one Palestinians are being held in the Israeli desert prison in isolation.
They are not allowed contact with anyone and are being held by the Israeli military as “illegal combatants".
There are approximately 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons, but they are not held under this Israeli law.
Ferwana asked that the Israeli prisons department allow detainee representatives to visit them and provide for some of their basic needs, but the administration of Al Naqab rejected the request. The Palestinian Authority official said he was informed that “these Gazans are under the direct control of the army under the law if illegal combatants".
The 41 Palestinians are not allowed any contact or communication, nor are they able to receive winter clothes or blankets.
Ferwana said that 16 people were brought in at first and another 25 early yesterday.
Information received, says the PA director of the prisoner issue, indicates that they are living in a “tragic situation, particularly in light of the bitter cold in the Naqab Desert."
Ferwana expressed grave concern over the fate of dozens of other Palestinians arrested during the major Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and demands to know their fate. They were taken out of the Strip in contravention to international law and the occupying Israeli authority refuses to comply or cooperate with the Red Cross and the Palestinian National Authority in this regard.
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An Israeli soldier stands next to blindfolded Palestinian detainee after they were arrested during the Israeli war in the northern Gaza Strip January 7, 2009.
PNN
