Ramallah - Saba:
Palestinian prisoners' institutions confirmed that at least (63) Palestinian prisoners have been martyred in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, including (40) martyrs from Gaza. Meanwhile, the enemy continues to conceal the identities of dozens of martyrs and withhold their bodies.
The number of documented martyr prisoners since 1967 stands at (300), the most recent of whom was the child Walid Ahmed from Silwad.
In a joint statement on Palestinian Prisoners' Day, the prisoners' institutions clarified that torture crimes at all levels, the crime of starvation, medical crimes, and sexual assaults, including rape, were the primary reasons for the martyrdom of prisoners and detainees at a higher rate than in any other period, based on historical monitoring and documentation available to the institutions.
Palestinian prisoners' institutions pointed out that testimonies and affidavits from prisoners inside Israeli prisons, relayed by legal teams, and testimonies documented by released detainees, revealed a shocking and horrific level of systematic torture methods, particularly in the accounts of detainees from Gaza.
These testimonies included, in addition to acts of torture, unprecedented methods of humiliation that violate human dignity, severe and repeated beatings, and deprivation of the minimum necessary conditions for life in detention.
We find that the Israeli enemy has worked to institutionalize crimes using specific tools and methods, requiring the international human rights system to view them as a new phase that threatens all of humanity, not just Palestinians.
This also applies to the issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. She pointed out that the far-right Israeli government had escalated its incitement campaigns and targeting of prisoners since before the war of extermination.
It was clear that this was part of an escalation of its criminality against detainees through repression and attempts to strip them of their remaining rights.
The period preceding the extermination was a prelude to its intentions, which called for their execution through its extremist minister, Ben Gvir, who represented the entire occupation system, which worked to incite prisoners to kill them and shoot them in the head to solve the problem of overcrowding in prisons.
The total number of arrests since the beginning of the genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached (16,400), including more than (510) women and approximately (1,300) children.
This figure does not include the thousands of arrests from Gaza, including women and children. The crime of enforced disappearance has been the most prominent crime committed by the Israeli enemy against detainees in Gaza, and continues to be.
The organizations renewed their call for the international human rights community to move forward with effective decisions to hold the leaders of the Israeli enemy accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against the Palestinian people.
They also called for sanctions to be imposed on the enemy that would place it in a state of clear international isolation, restore the international human rights system to its fundamental role, put an end to the horrific state of impotence it has suffered in light of the ongoing genocide and aggression, and end the exceptional immunity enjoyed by the Israeli entity, which is considered beyond accountability, accountability, and punishment.
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