Palestinian Journalists Syndicate demands an end to the occupation’s crimes against journalists in detention centers

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST)- The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed that the Israeli occupation has detained about 100 Palestinian journalists, including 10 female journalists since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip on October 7.

The Syndicate  said in a statement that most of the journalists were beaten at the moment of detention, and did not receive any kind of treatment or health follow-up, which poses a threat to their lives, in the light of the difficult conditions the Palestinian prisoners are experiencing, including beating, torture and the deprivation of the simplest needs and rights, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and all international norms.

The statement warned of the unknown fate of many detained journalists from Gaza Strip in the light of forcible disappearance and a real threat to their lives, calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Executive Director of UNESCO, and the International Federation of Journalists to intervene to stop these crimes against Palestinian journalists in occupation detention centers.

On Tuesday, the Arab Parliament called for the formation of an international fact-finding committee to inspect the Israeli occupation prisons to determine the grave violations to which Palestinian prisoners are exposed inside them.

In a statement on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, which falls on April 17 of each year, the parliament called on the international community, the United Nations, international, regional and human rights institutions, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to take serious international action in order to put pressure on the occupation and oblige it to immediately release the prisoners.

The statement called for respecting and applying international law and for providing necessary protection to the prisoners in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, holding the occupying entity fully responsible for the lives of the Palestinian prisoners.

The Parliament indicated that the Prisoner’s Day this year coincides with the dangerous escalation pursued by the occupying entity represented in its brutal aggression against Gaza Strip, the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, and the escalation of the occupation authorities’ violations against Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Nada Haj Khidr