specialized in ensuring rights and basic services to the Palestinian people, include the
following:
1- The Commission of Detainees Affairs: The Israeli occupation carried out a number
of arbitrary measures and many obstacles that obstructed the performance of the
Commission, including:
- Obstructing the work and performance of the Commission’s lawyers assigned to
defend and advocate for the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention. These
obstacles took the form of preventing detainees from contacting the lawyer upon
arrest, preventing the attorney from attending interrogation sessions and limiting
lawyers’ visits to detainees, in addition to failing to respond to complaints raised
about violations and rejecting petitions for improving the detainees' conditions
and their living conditions.
- The Commission of Detainees Affairs suffered the consequences of Israel’s policy
of medical negligence and failure to provide the necessary medical treatment to
sick prisoners, by having to send specialized doctors to examine the health status
of prisoners and provide medical advice to them. This constituted a financial
burden on the families of the prisoners and prisoner-specialized institutions. The
Commission also carried the burden of the maintenance of the prisoners after
their release due to their physical and psychological inability to work with dignity.
- Added to the above, bearing the high financial cost as a result of the occupation’s
policy against the prisoners, which includes:14
- Providing legal representation for prisoners before the courts by contracting a sufficient
number of lawyers to defend them. Paying the cantina allowance annually. Paying an
aid allowance to the families of prisoners in prisons to contribute to providing them
with a decent life, following the arrest of the breadwinner. Reintegration of released
prisoners into society after years of detention, within the framework of the released
prisoners’ rehabilitation program, such as by providing vocational training. Added to
the above, bearing the cost of university education for released prisoners and the same
for prisoners in prisons.
A correspondence received by the Commission from the Legal Department of the Ministry of Prisoners and . 14
Freed Prisoners’ Affairs on February 26, 2020.