It added that “strip searches” have become routine since 2023, particularly during transfers to Hasharon Prison, used as a temporary detention facility, or upon arrival at Damon Prison, where women were subjected to “humiliating and degrading” searches.
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Strip searches are one of the most prominent and widely used policies and one of the forms of sexual assault that has affected all men and women prisoners, according to the group.
Israeli authorities also deny medical treatment to prisoners, such as women suffering from chronic illnesses, the statement said, adding that two women prisoners have cancer.
Most of the women prisoners are either detained over alleged “incitement” or held under administrative detention without charge based on what Israel describes as a “secret file,” the organisation said.
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The prisoners’ society renewed calls for the release of women prisoners held “arbitrarily,” especially minors, sick detainees, and pregnant women.
It also demanded an end to “organised crimes and violations” against prisoners, calling them “one aspect of the ongoing genocide against prisoners and detainees.”
In April, Raed Abu al Humus, head of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, told Anadolu that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails face a “silent genocide,” including starvation, solitary confinement, denial of medical treatment, beatings, and humiliation.
More than 9,400 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, facing torture, starvation, and medical neglect that have led to the deaths of dozens, according to Palestinian and Israeli rights groups.
