The head of the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, warned, on Wednesday, of the danger of  committing suicide by the children in the Israeli Jalameh detention center, due to their poor detention conditions and the prison administration's recklessness of their lives, and he holds Israel fully responsible for that.

"The child prisoners in Jalameh Detention Center suffer from tough detention and humanitarian conditions and very bad treatment by the prison administration," Abu Bakr said in a special statement to Safa agency.

He stated that some of the child prisoners told the commission’s lawyer, during his visit, that “they do not want life, because of their compelling circumstances.”

The Israeli prisons administration pursues a systematic policy against child prisoners and deliberately neglects their lives and denies them the most basic rights guaranteed in accordance with international laws.

These children suffer double suffering, especially in light of the bitter cold, lack of blankets, bedding and clothes, poor food provided to them, as well as the deliberate medical negligence of the prison administration.

 
The spread of Coronavirus among the prisoners in the Israeli prisons and the deterioration of the health status of some of them, due to Israeli recklessness, constitutes a great danger to their lives.

"We are in constant contact with the International Red Cross and we have sent several letters to the United Nations and international organizations to show them that is happening inside the Israeli prisons against Palestinian prisoners, including children, and we called for urgent intervention to stop the Israeli practices against them," Abu Bakr added. 

In addition, Abu Bakr called for the formation of specialized international human rights committees to visit the Israeli prisons and detention centers and to be informed of the flagrant violations of the rights of the alestinian children and prisoners.

He expressed his hope that those organizations would be at a high level of responsibility and they would put pressure on their governments to oblige Israel to abide by the agreements and treaties it signed to protect the prisoners.

“Some of the child prisoners had threatened the administration of the Jalameh detention center with suicide due to the poor living conditions they suffer,” the commission on Tuesday said in a statement. 

The underage prisoners arrested in the Israeli prisons complained about the degrading and bad treatment and their isolation in narrow solitary cells with a dark color, a very rough walls, and a lit light all the time without any windows in the cells.