Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Club: The occupation’s repeated attacks on the leaders of the prisoner movement are an attempt to assassinate them

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that the repeated attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces on leaders  of the prisoner movement are attempts to assassinate them.

The Authority and the Club said  in a statement on Monday today, reported by the Wafa Agency, that the occupation forces carried out a new crime on September the 9th  against prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement, and a group of his isolated comrades in the “Megiddo” prison, which consisted of a brutal assault on them, that  caused him several injuries.

The statement  added: “The brutal suppression operations that have affected all prisoners since the beginning of the war of extermination, including  leaders of the prisoner movement, have only one explanation, which is that the occupation has taken a clear decision to attempt to assassinate them, especially with the continued recurrence of attacks against them.

The authority  and the Club indicated  that the occupation authorities isolate dozens of prisoner leaders in difficult and tragic conditions and they are subjected to repeated brutal attacks inside their cells, as they have documented, through visits by legal teams, dozens of crimes in various detention centers, from torture and starvation to medical crimes that have reached their peak since the beginning of the war of extermination.

The statement pointed out that what is happening to prisoners inside the occupation prisons represents another aspect of the crime of genocide.

Over the course of a year of war, dozens of prisoners have been martyred , and the occupation has announced the identities of only 41 of them, while dozens of martyrs detained from Gaza are still subject to enforced disappearance.

The authority and the Club called on the international human rights system to stop the terrifying state of helplessness that surrounds its role in the face of the war crimes of genocide and the crimes committed against prisoners, and to end the state of exceptional immunity and impunity granted to the occupation. It is noteworthy that prisoner Barghouti has been detained since 2002 and has been subjected to repeated transfers and isolation operations since the beginning of the war of genocide, the last of which was to the “Megiddo” prison.