Inside "Israel's" notorious Ofer prison, Palestinian detainees are facing a widespread outbreak of allergies, fungal infections, and fleas, exacerbated by the continued denial of medical treatment, the Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office (ASRA) warned.

According to the report, detainees have developed severe and painful skin conditions. Many are reportedly suffering from relentless itching and raw, inflamed skin, with bodies turning red and covered in lesions as the infections spread unchecked across overcrowded cells.

The situation is also rapidly worsening, with no meaningful medical intervention provided to ease the detainees' daily suffering.

The prison administration is also withholding treatment despite the deepening health emergency. Detainees are left without access to basic care even as infectious and dermatological diseases proliferate, compounding already deteriorating living conditions and leaving illnesses to advance untreated inside the facility.

Dogs, guards, and disease unleashed

ASRA also reported that detainees are subjected to repeated and violent raids inside prison sections, during which police dogs are unleashed and live ammunition is used. 

Alongside the health crisis and violence, conditions inside the prison are further aggravated by inadequate and poor-quality food, sharply reduced outdoor time, and the unchecked spread of disease. Israeli prison authorities have trapped Palestinians in an environment where deprivation, illness, and physical pressure intersect continuously, with no relief from any of the compounding hardships.

The reports depict a prison environment that has deteriorated into an extreme and suffocating setting, where basic human needs are absent and detainees are left exposed to untreated disease, repeated forceful incursions, and sustained deprivation that collectively define daily life inside Israeli facilities. 

Palestinian detainee advocacy groups warn of scabies outbreak

Earlier on May 24, Palestinian detainee advocacy groups warned of a worsening health crisis inside Israeli prisons following the outbreak of a new wave of scabies infections among Palestinian detainees held in several detention facilities.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society warned that the disease has spread widely across prisons, including Ofer, al-Naqab, and Megiddo, amid overcrowding, filth, and the deliberate denial of healthcare to detainees.

According to the organization, infected detainees are suffering from severe itching, inflammation, bleeding wounds, and skin infections while being denied adequate treatment, quarantine measures, clean clothes, blankets, and basic hygiene supplies.

Palestinian detainee groups said Israeli prison authorities have continued transferring infected detainees between prison sections, accelerating the spread of the disease among detainees already weakened by months of starvation, beatings, and abuse.

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