GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The ministry of detainees and ex-detainees in Gaza issued an urgent appeal on Sunday to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and international rights organizations to save Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
The appeal comes ahead of the Palestinian Prisoner Day on April 17, amid rising alarms over detainees’ incarceration conditions.
The ministry called on these international parties to assume their legal and moral responsibilities regarding the grave violations faced by thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The ministry affirmed that the exposure of Palestinian prisoners to different abuses in Israeli jails violates the most basic principles of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
In its appeal, the ministry cited human rights reports as saying that “conditions inside Israeli prisons have escalated into a humanitarian catastrophe.”
“Prisoners face a systematic starvation policy that has severely damaged their health, compounded by deliberate medical neglect that denies the sick and injured essential care. They also suffer from extreme overcrowding, degrading detention conditions, total isolation from the outside world, and the denial of access to legal representation,” the ministry explained.
It called for urgent action to send independent international missions to inspect Israeli prisons, assess detainees’ conditions, and pressure for an end to all abuses against them.
