Palestinian Resistance Calls on International Community to Hold Israeli Occupation Officials Accountable for Crimes against Prisoners
Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Palestinian resistance called on the international community to hold Israeli occupation officials accountable for crimes of torture against prisoners, to prevent their impunity, and to pressure by all means to release all prisoners immediately.
The resistance on Wednesday said in a statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: “Since the beginning of the war of genocide more than eight months ago, prisoners in the occupation’s prisons have been subjected to the most heinous forms of brutal torture, including starvation, humiliation, abuse, deliberate medical neglect, deprivation of medicine, slow killing and field executions”.
“The number of martyrs under torture in its prisons reached about 60, including 40 prisoners from Gaza Strip, the statement added.”
The resistance added: The crimes of brutal torture are a fixed policy pursued by the fascist occupation against the Palestinians detained by it, in a flagrant violation and clear disregard for all international charters, laws and norms, which requires serious and real action by the United Nations institutions and the international community to expose these crimes and work by all means to prosecute their perpetrators and prevent their impunity.
The resistance called on the United Nations, human rights institutions and humanitarian organizations in the world to do their duty by pressuring the occupation to allow families to visit the prisoners and urged the human rights organizations to enter the detention centers to monitor the conditions of the prisoners.
In turn, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Club confirmed in a joint statement that the number of martyrs as a result of torture since the beginning of the war of extermination on October 7 is the highest in the history of the prisoner movement, explaining that the occupation has adopted the crime of torture against prisoners since its occupation of the land of Palestine and has worked to develop many tools and methods to consolidate it, violating every right recognized by the international system regarding prisoners.
The Commission and the Club pointed out that since the beginning of the genocide war, detentions have escalated, targeting more than 9,400 Palestinians in the West Bank, in addition to thousands in Gaza Strip and hundreds in the territories occupied in 1948. Torture has escalated to an unprecedented level and intensity, a fact that was reflected in dozens of testimonies on the crimes of the occupation.
United Nations concerned over the occupation’s violations against Palestinian prisoners
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