Palestinian prisoner institutions demand forming an international committee to investigate the occupation’s escalating crimes in its prisons

Occupied Al-Quds (ST) – Palestinian prisoner institutions called for the necessity of forming an impartial and independent international investigation committee into the escalating crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation against prisoners in its detention centers, especially those who have been detained since the beginning of its Nazi aggression against Gaza Strip.

The institutions stated on Wednesday: “The occupation violates international humanitarian law by assaulting the displaced in Gaza and committing a genocide that has been ongoing for 68 days. The occupation escalates arbitrary detentions and attacks on detainees and it threatens women with rape and abuse, and uses some detainees as human shields.”

The institutions indicated that six prisoners in the occupation have been detained since the start of the aggression on the Strip.

The occupation authorities deliberately concealed the name of the martyr Abd al-Rahman Mar’i, who was martyred last month in Megiddo prison in a premeditated murder, in violation of international humanitarian law. In addition, the prisoner Thaer Abu Assab was martyred in the Negev detention center as a result of the systematic killings carried out by the occupation against prisoners since the aggression.

It is noteworthy that the institutions are the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, the Prisoner’s Club, the Supreme Commission for Follow-up on the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners, the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center.

Najla Khoury