GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Hamas Movement said that the Hebrew daily Haaretz’s report on the harsh living conditions of Palestinian prisoners reveals “the criminal Nazi entity’s brutality and sadism against our people.”
In a press release on Thursday, the Movement said that the Israeli occupation forces were violating international humanitarian law by arresting civilians and transferring them from shelter and displacement centers to an undisclosed location.
Hamas called on international human rights organizations—particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross—to fulfill its obligations and to disclose the whereabouts of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation jails.
Hamas also demanded immediate action to shield the detainees from the horrifying abuses they were experiencing.
The Movement emphasized the necessity for the UN and the international community “to apply pressure on the release of prisoners from occupation prisons and to hold the fascist entity’s leaders accountable for their crimes against our Palestinian people.”
Earlier Thursday, Haaretz Hebrew newspaper revealed that a doctor at the field hospital set up at the Sde Teiman detention center to hold arrested Gazans described conditions that he said could compromise the inmates’ health and put the government at risk of violating the law.
“Two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries,” said the doctor who described deplorable conditions and violations of medical ethics and the law in a letter sent last week to Israel’s war minister, health minister, and attorney general.
