GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Hamas Movement said in a statement issued Thursday that the killing of two Palestinian detainees, including Dr. Adnan al-Barash in an Israeli prison, is another episode of the “horrific war crimes” committed against Palestinians.
The Movement said many, including doctors, are regularly detained by Israeli forces from schools and hospitals and taken to detention centers where they lack the most basic rights.
“Among them are doctors whose crime was performing their humanitarian duty towards their wounded and sick people,” Hamas said.
Hamas also called on the international community to condemn the arbitrary arrest and subsequent deaths in detention of Palestinians and force Israel to reveal the fate of thousands of prisoners and return them to their families.
Earlier, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that two detainees from the Gaza Strip have died in Israeli prisons.
The society identified the two victims as Adnan al-Barash, 50, a doctor, and Ismail Khader, 33.
Al-Barash was the head of the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He was arrested by the Israeli army last December as he was treating patients at Al-Adwa Hospital in northern Gaza.
Hundreds of Palestinians are believed to have been detained by the Israeli army amid a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip.
