20 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees are currently held in solitary confinement inside Israeli jails:
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20 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees are currently held in solitary confinement in different Israeli jails mainly in Ramle and Eshel prisons for different time periods.
Solitary confinement is the toughest punishment measure imposed by Israeli prison administration in which a Palestinian detainees denied contact with any other political prisoners and detainees for unidentified and prolonged period of time.
Palestinian isolated detainees have been held in solitary confinement amid very difficult and unbearable detention conditions, deprived from their basic human rights. They have been subjected to inhuman treatment and abuses in grave-like prison cells.
Dozens of Palestinian detainees have spent whole years in Israeli solitary confinement, where they have got psychological and serious diseases.
20 Palestinian detainees are still held in Israel's solitary confinement as an additional punitive measure to their imprisonment sentences as part of Israeli revenge policy that aims toto undermine the detainees' wills and spirits.
Israeli solitary confinement came in total violation to international convention and laws. Article 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) provides that all persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person
This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.
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