The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Committee warned on Monday of the impact of the upcoming depression on the prisoners in the Israeli jails.

The committee indicated in a statement reached Safa that the old prisons and detention centers located in the southern desert regions and have been without maintenance and improvement for many years.

“Most of the prisons are old buildings full of damp and some detention centers, such as Asion and Hawara infiltrate water every winter and lack the lowest levels of sanitary protection,” said the committee.

This coincides with the prisoners' suffering from an acute shortage of clothes and winter needs, as a result of the Israeli authorities ’refusal to provide them with their necessities through family visits that have been suspended for many months under the pretext of Coronavirus.

There is increasing concern and fear among the families of prisoners and the defending institutions of their rights due to the lack of means of heating in many detention centers, as well as the lack of the necessary means to protect them from the stormy and harsh weather, especially the tent sections in the Negev prison, which are threatened with uprooting due to strong winds.

The Committee called on human rights institutions, led by the International Red Cross Organization, to immediately move in order to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to provide enough winter supplies in the Israeli prisons and detention centers and to work by all means in order to avoid any risks or harm to the prisoners, as the depression deepens during the coming days. .

The country is affected by a deep depression from tomorrow evening, Tuesday to Friday, during which it is expected that the temperature will drop to zero in some areas with snowfall and strong winds.