The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has sounded the alarm over Israel’s escalating repression inside its prisons, warning that the continued ban on lawyers’ visits to Palestinian detainees is deepening isolation and concealing mounting abuses.

In a press statement issued Thursday, the Commission condemned the Israeli prison administration’s recent decision to cancel all legal visits "until further notice." This blanket restriction, imposed under the pretext of “exceptional circumstances,” has left detainees without access to legal counsel or any independent oversight.

According to the Commission, the ban severely limits the ability to monitor the health and safety of detainees, many of whom are reportedly suffering from untreated illness, worsening medical conditions, and systematic mistreatment. Concerns have grown amid reports of disease outbreaks in overcrowded, unsanitary cells and a spate of violent raids by prison guards in recent days.

These assaults, officials said, were carried out under the pretext that prisoners had expressed support for Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel. But behind the justification lies a broader campaign of punitive measures: confiscation of personal items, blackout of news and communication, and full suspension of family and Red Cross visits.

“What is taking place is not merely restriction, it is deliberate erasure,” the Commission said. “By denying detainees their right to legal representation and visits, the occupation is attempting to silence the truth of what is happening behind bars.”

As the war on Gaza intensifies, so too does the crackdown on Palestinians in Israeli prisons, now invisible to the outside world, locked away without lawyers, without witnesses, and without rights.