Ramallah, June 02 (QNA) - The occupation authorities continue to assault women through methodical and persistent detention campaigns, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement on Tuesday.

The statement added that the number of women prisoners surged to 89 following the arrest of four girls at dawn today, including three children, three pregnant women, 19 administrative detainees, as well as two women with cancer.

The vast majority of them are languishing in Damon Prison, while several others are being held in investigation centers, the statement continued.

The society recalled that those women prisoners are subjected to harsh detention conditions, including starvation, medical neglect, solitary confinement, assaults, and dehumanizing inspections, along with severe overcrowding inside those dungeons, with some of them having to sleep on the ground.

The statement clarified that the pace of repression inside those prisons has evidently heightened with the recurrence of physical assaults and the imposition of methodical dehumanization policies.

This is in addition to the constant detention policy based on either incitement or administrative detention under the pretext of "secret dossiers", the statement said, noting that more than 760 cases of women being detained have been recorded since the outbreak of the genocide in October 2023.

The society recalled the deterioration of health conditions, with some prisoners suffering from chronic illnesses such as cancer and being deprived of treatment amid an existing policy of weaponizing food and intentional disease transmission in prisons.

These practices, the statement continued, constitute part of a systematic torture regime against prisoners of both genders. It demanded their immediate release, especially children, pregnant women, and sick prisoners, and called for an end to the persistent abuses against them. (QNA)