The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, the Prisoners’ Club, the departments of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the foreign regions of Fatah, and a large number of civil society institutions, international campaigns, and supporters of the Palestinian cause have issued an appeal to the living consciences and supporters of the rights of the Palestinian people to make the third of August a national and international day to support Gaza and the Palestinian prisoners.
This day includes protests, issuing solidarity statements, radio and newspaper interviews, seminars, conferences, and publishing opinion articles supporting Palestinian rights.
All these activities will include a global movement to stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip and to stop the abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners.
The fact sheet on prisoners prepared by the International Academic Campaign Against the Israeli Occupation and Apartheid indicates that Israel exploited what happened on October 7 and abused Palestinian prisoners
through a policy of starvation, beating and torture. Israel also activated a racist law known as the ‘Unlawful Combatant Law’ by a decision of the Minister of the Occupation Army on October 8, 2023 against those arrested in the Gaza Strip, whereby about 1,400 of them were classified as unlawful combatants.
It is estimated that about 5,000 detainees and prisoners from the Gaza Strip since October 7 have been living in harsh and inhumane conditions, which have led to the martyrdom of about 37 of them in the “Sde Taman” detention center in the Negev desert. In continuation of the data included in this paper, and in light of the Red Cross, lawyers and families preventing prisoners from entering, Israel has doubled the number of its arrests in the West Bank since October 7, where the number of arrests reached about 9,870 cases of arrest until the end of July, including about 350 women and girls, and about 680 minors, and the renewal of about 7,600 administrative detention orders and decisions. In addition, about
300 cases of arrest of Palestinians inside the territories occupied in 1948 were recorded on racist grounds related to posting on social media platforms and on charges of incitement, including about 120 university students.
‘In fact, the participation of our Palestinian communities in this movement is necessary and important in order to shed light on the genocidal war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and to expose the crimes of the occupation against Palestinian civilians and prisoners. On the other hand, the efforts of the PLO circles to prosecute Israel for its crimes against prisoners are also necessary and important, as raising the prisoners’ cases individually and collectively before the International Criminal Court against the Israeli Prison Service will lead to the punishment of Israeli war army officers on charges of war crimes. As a result, more than 200 international solidarity activities will be present on such a day, and these activities are supposed to continue until the Isra
eli aggression is stopped and all Palestinian prisoners and detainees are released
Source: Maan News Agency