Amman – The family of the Jordanian prisoner in Israeli occupation prisons, Ammar Huwaitat, called on the Jordanian government to find out the fate of their son, who was beaten and physically assaulted by Israeli Prison Service forces.
The family reported that Huwaitat fainted as a result of the severe beating he was subjected to, and added that he suffered severe injuries to the upper parts of his body, including fractures in his ribs, and injuries that caused inflammation in his hand.
Solitary isolation
Rapporteur of the National Committee for Jordanian Prisoners and Missing Persons, Fadi Farah, said that the Israeli occupation authorities transferred the prisoner Huwaitat from Ofer Prison to solitary confinement in Salmon Prison, before he was assaulted by 15 prisoners in Megiddo Prison.
Farah pointed out – in his speech to Tel Aviv Tribune Net – that ambiguity surrounds the fate of prisoners in the occupation prisons in general, in addition to systematic secrecy about the condition of prisoner Ammar Huwaitat in particular, especially since he was not transferred to the hospital until after suffering for days from his injury and after his health condition began to deteriorate.
The jailer’s revenge
Farah pointed out that Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons have been living in difficult living conditions since October 7, including beatings, as happened with Ammar Huwaitat, starvation, preventing visits from families, lawyers, and the Red Cross, and a lot of suffering, as if the occupation wants to take revenge on the resistance. Through the prisoners, he said.
Farah called on the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fulfill its duty towards the Jordanian prisoners who are subjected to a hideous attack by the occupation authorities, without regard to the minimum human and legal rights of the prisoners.
The number of Jordanian prisoners in the occupation prisons is 20. They were subjected to retaliatory measures and attacks carried out against them by the occupation authorities after the events of October 7 (Al-Aqsa Flood). These attacks caused 6 prisoners to die as a result of severe torture, according to forensic medicine reports and editors’ testimonies.
It is worth noting that the Jordanian prisoner, Ammar Huwaitat, has been detained since 2002, and has been sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years.