RAMALLAH,(Palestine Foundation Information Center)
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has documented testimonies from inside Israeli prisons confirming the continued systematic crimes against Palestinian detainees, including shootings targeting limbs, broken ribs, electric shocks, deliberate starvation, and medical neglect.
This was presented in a briefing distributed by the PPS on Monday to journalists regarding “The situation of prisoners during the first half of July,” based on prison visits conducted by its lawyers.
It said that “The Israeli prison administration continues to commit systematic crimes against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, with increasing threats to the fate of more than 10,800 prisoners and detainees, including women and children.”
According to dozens of visits during the first half of July, testimonies from detainees revealed systematic torture that included broken ribs, extinguishing cigarettes on bodies, electric shocks, rubber bullets fired at limbs, deliberate starvation, outbreaks of scabies, and denial of medical treatment.
The PPS renewed its call on the international human rights system to “take effective steps to hold Israeli leaders accountable for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, particularly prisoners and detainees.”
It also demanded “the imposition of sanctions that would remove Israel from the circle of international immunity, restore the real role of the human rights system, and end the paralysis that has afflicted it since the onset of the Israeli genocide.”
Since October 7, 2023, with US support, Israel has committed a genocide in the Gaza Strip involving killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international appeals and rulings from the International Court of Justice calling for its cessation.
The genocide has resulted in over 200,000 Palestinian casualties, including martyrs and wounded, the majority being children and women, as well as more than 11,000 missing persons, hundreds of thousands displaced, a famine that claimed countless lives including children, and widespread devastation.
