Palestinian FM affirms Israeli aggression in Al-Quds disregards international stances
OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (ST)_The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has affirmed that the Israeli occupation’s escalation and its aggression on the occupied Al-Quds city [Jerusalem] is a disregard for the international stances that call for halting it.
The ministry condemned in a statement issued on Sunday the continuity of the occupation forces’ suppression of solidarity stances with Al-Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood’s residents and the arrest of journalists amid the continuity of closing the entrances of the neighborhood for more than 2 weeks.
It clarified that Israeli occupation’s unceasing crimes and violations in the Palestinian territories in general and Al-Quds in particular necessitate urgent international intervention to stop these crimes and to protect the Palestinian people.
In another development, The Commission of Detainees Affairs stated in its documented statistics that the arrest cases among Palestinians since 1967 were about (1.000.000), including (17.000) cases against girls, women and mothers, and (50.000) cases against children. It is confirmed that the arrest process is accompanied with torture, where all those who experienced detention were subjected to physical or psychological torture and harsh treatment.
Regarding the policy of administrative detention, the commission pointed out that (54.000) administrative detention orders have been issued since June 1967.
(226) detainees have been martyred since June 1967, including (73) died due to torture, (71) due to medical ignorance, (75) due to deliberate murder and (7) due to shooting them inside the prison.
Moreover, hundreds of detainees died after releasing them due to diseases they got in prison caused by torture, medical ignorance and bad treatment.
The commission confirms that the Israeli occupation authorities depend on detention as a firm policy since occupying the rest of the Palestinian territories in June 1967, where detention became a constant behavior and main part of the Palestinians lives who still suffering from the detention and its consequences.
Basma Qaddour