21 Palestinians with special needs in Israel's jails

This came in a statement released by the center on the twelfth anniversary of the international day of persons with disabilities.

The center stated that the suffering of those prisoners increases because they need special attention unavailable inside jails.

The center added that Zionist regime’s persistence in detaining Palestinians with physical and psychological disabilities violates the international lawو and appealed to human rights groups to pressure Zionist regime to release them and ensure their access to rehabilitation programs and proper medical care.

For its part, the Palestinian commission of detainees and ex-detainees said on Wednesday that 50 Palestinian captives in Etzion jails are exposed every day to immoral and inhumane acts at the hands of jailers.

The captives, especially in the morning as they are assembled for counting, are strip searched, verbally and physically attacked with no reason, and punished with solitary confinement if they showed any reaction to the jailers' ill-treatment, the commission said.