Ramallah – Ma’an – The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club said that they have no confirmation about the news of the martyrdom of the detainee, Dr. Iyad Ahmed Muhammad Al-Rantisi (53 years old) from Gaza.

According to a joint statement, his family has not been informed by any party to date about the fate of their son who has been detained since November 10, 2023. According to the family of Doctor Rantissi, their son, a father of three, who is head of the maternity department at Kamal Adwan Hospital, was not… Before his arrest, he suffered from any diseases or health problems. The occupation had arrested him at a military checkpoint during the ground invasion of Gaza. He has another brother who was arrested by the occupation last January.

The authority and the club added in a joint statement that the occupation, since the beginning of the ongoing war of genocide against our people in Gaza, has imposed a policy of forced disappearance against Gaza detainees, and to this day refuses to discl
ose the identities of the martyrs among the ranks of Gaza detainees and the circumstances of their martyrdom, and as competent authorities, everyone whose martyrdom has been announced from The detainees in Gaza came after preliminary information was received, either through those who were released, or through subsequent examination through the competent authorities, the last of whom was Dr. Adnan Al-Barash, one of the most prominent doctors in Gaza, was reported to us about his martyrdom last May, some time after his martyrdom.

The Prisoners’ Commission and the Prisoners’ Club confirmed that the occupation’s continued implementation of the crime of enforced disappearance against Gaza detainees and the subjugation of the law for that purpose is one of the aspects of the ongoing war of extermination against our people, and the comprehensive aggression against everything that is Palestinian, including the continuing shocking and horrific testimonies that have been revealed. Of the detainees who were released ov
er the past months, pictures of many of the detainees who were released spoke before their testimonies about the level of torture crimes that were practiced against them, and some of them came out with limb amputations.

The Commission and the Club continued, ‘It is certain that the number of martyrs among the ranks of Gaza detainees is estimated at dozens according to the available preliminary data, in addition to the field executions that took place against detainees inside Gaza, noting that the occupation, through an international press investigation, had revealed the martyrdom of ( 36) detained in its prisons and camps.’

The Commission and the Club indicated that the testimonies obtained by some institutions in difficult and complex circumstances, in addition to the available data about the circumstances of the martyrdom of a number of detainees who were previously announced as prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons and camps, and what was revealed by some international press investigations, c
onfirm The crime of torture, starvation, medical crimes, and systematic abuse, including sexual assaults, constituted direct causes of the martyrdom of prisoners and detainees, including detainees from Gaza.

In this context, the Prisoners’ Commission and the Prisoners’ Club confirm that the occupation’s claim of its intention to open investigations into the conditions of detention of Gaza detainees, including the conditions of detention in the Sde Teman camp, as one of several camps and prisons in which the occupation authorities hold Gaza detainees, are mere allegations that do not carry any meaning. The meaning of a system that practices genocide in front of the world, and carries out crimes of torture and field executions in front of the camera lenses. In addition to all of this, we affirm that the Israeli judicial system has formed and continues to be an essential pillar in consolidating all the crimes occurring today, including the ongoing crimes against prisoners and detainees.

It is noteworthy that t
he occupation arrested thousands of our people in Gaza, and it had recently admitted that it had arrested at least 4,000, of whom 1,500 were released, knowing that the occupation prison administration announced at the beginning of June the detention of (899) of those it classified as ‘unlawful combatants.’ , including women and children, as well as dozens of medical personnel who were targeted, as Palestinian Ministry of Health data indicate that at least (310) medical personnel were arrested.

The Prisoners’ Commission and the Prisoners’ Club renew their demand for the necessity of opening an investigation under international supervision regarding the crimes and grave violations committed against detainees and prisoners in the occupation’s prisons and camps, as an aspect of the ongoing genocide against our people in Gaza, despite the bleak picture that surrounds the international human rights system and the state of helplessness. The terrifying image that dominated its image and positions, in the face of the
crimes and atrocities committed by the occupation since the beginning of the war of extermination until today.

Source: Maan News Agency