The organization said in a report that the Zionist prisons authority used during the year new ways to increase the psychological and physical pressure on those detainees so that they could not live a normal life if they were released one day.

The report noted that at the end of last year, the number of prisoners amounted to 7,286 prisoners including 36 women, 20 ministers and lawmakers and 250 children under age 18.

The report also focused on the prisoners of occupied Al-Quds and the 1948 occupied lands, saying that the Zionist occupation authority  marginalized their issue and still refuses to release any one of them as part of a swap deal with the Palestinians.

For its part, Hossam society for detainees and ex-detainees said Saturday, Feb 6, that the administration of Negev prison stepped up its repressive policy against the Palestinian prisoners and their families at all levels, especially depriving them of visits.

During a telephone call, a captive has told Hossam that the health and incarceration conditions in this jail started to worsen in recent days because of the freezing weather.