Khaberni - An Israeli government report admitted, on Wednesday, that drinking water was denied to Palestinian prisoners for periods of up to 12 hours as a collective punishment, during the genocide war on Gaza.
This came according to a report issued by the Public Defense Authority affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Justice after a delegation from its representatives visited the prisons during the year 2024, according to the Haaretz newspaper.
The newspaper stated that "during the war, Palestinian prisoners (detainees) were prevented from obtaining drinking water as a collective punishment, sometimes for hours or even half a day," according to reports from representatives of the Public Defense Authority who visited the security prisons in 2024.
It clarified that in January of last year, the Civil Rights Association (unofficial) petitioned a court in occupied Jerusalem demanding the disclosure of the reports, but the authorities did not agree, on the grounds that publication would harm national security, because Israeli detainees were then being held in Gaza.
The newspaper added, last Tuesday, that the Ministry of Justice delivered 6 reports to the association, based on the changed circumstances that now made their delivery possible.
The reports were based on three visits made by representatives of the Public Defense Authority to the Ketziot Prison (Negev Desert) in the south, in May, June, and September of 2024, according to the same source.
One of the reports stated that the results of the first two visits showed that the policy of restricting access to water was implemented at least in some sections, so that the prisoners were deprived of access to drinking water continuously during certain hours of the day.
