The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs committee said that prisoner Omar Fahmi Kharwat, who is sentenced to life imprisonment has been facing solitary confinement in the cells of Hasharon Prison for about a month.

The committee stated on Monday that the Israeli prisons administration had issued a decision to renew the order to isolate the prisoner Kharwat for 20 days after ending his previous solitary confinement, which lasted for more than eight months.

During March 2020, the Israeli Prison Administration arbitrarily isolated four prisoners from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) in Raymond Jail , including Kharwat, and then they were transferred to other prisons.

The prisoner Kharwat was isolated at the beginning inside Raymond Jail and then transferred to the isolation of Ayalon Prison and then to the cells of Megiddo Prison and later an order was issued to end his isolation and transfer him to Shatta detention center, after that he was isolated once again for false pretenses.

Despite the severe detention conditions Kharwat suffers from, he is in good health and enjoys high spirits, but he is deprived of having a break because the prison administration deliberately allocates the breakout hour to him in early hours, so he does not leave the room at all.

The committee expressed its concern about the Israeli administration prisons isolation policy against the Palestinian prisoners under flimsy arguments, which have escalated recently and targeted many leaders and organizational cadres, stressing that the isolation cells are like graves for the living, which violate the prisoner physically and morally and harm him in a programmatic and systematic way. .

The prisoner Kharwat, 49, from Hebron , has been detained since 2002 and sentenced to Life imprisonment for four times.