Global solidarity towards Palestinian prisoners
Last Updated on August 5, 2024 9:11 am
Rights organizations around the world have expressed solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. The day is observed on August 3 to highlight Israeli human rights abuses, violations of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and the ongoing massacres in Gaza. Oppression and torture are protested in secret in occupation Israeli prisons.
Since October 7 last year, Palestinian prisoners have been subjected to terrible torture. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced shortly after the announcement that the besieged Gaza was cut off to food, water, electricity and fuel, effectively beginning the genocide. Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gavir, has himself launched a war against Palestinian political prisoners and detainees. He did so by implementing ‘overcrowding’ policies in Israeli prisons and camps.
Since the announcement by the Minister of National Security, the Israeli army and security forces have launched a campaign of mass arrests in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The number of Palestinian citizens captured from these two areas has reached 9,800. At least 335 women and 680 children are among them. More than 3,400 Palestinians are under administrative detention. That is, they are detained indefinitely without charge. Among them are 22 women and 40 children. Such a high number of administrative prisoners has not been seen since 1967.
Israel has arrested numerous Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, possibly exceeding several thousand. They were detained under the 2002 ‘Imprisonment of Unlawful Combatants Act’, which allows the Israeli army to detain any person without issuing a detention order.
Earlier, Israeli experts demanded that a prison in the Negev desert be shut down as soon as possible after horrendous allegations of abuse and torture emerged. He also called for the accountability and prosecution of soldiers involved in the persecution.
The S.D. Taiman prison in southern Israel is primarily a military facility that has been used to detain Palestinians from the Gaza Strip without trial since October 7 last year. A Palestinian prisoner was a victim of gang rape. Some Israeli soldiers took turns and raped her. By this he became seriously ill. He was taken to the hospital bleeding.
Nine soldiers were detained after the incident and the country’s military police launched an investigation. Israeli analyst Shael Ben-Efraim has called for it to end, criticizing the detention center and the actions of the Israeli army. He said, these are military installations that should be closed. It has to be stopped.’
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In recent months, the mass torture of Palestinian prisoners at SD Timan Prison has made headlines. At least 36 Palestinians have died in prison since the war in Gaza began on October 7 last year.
Ben-Efraim, who previously served in the Israeli army, said the facility was similar to other notorious prisons. Basically, there were no laws governing the facility.
He said that the Israeli forces in S.D. Taiman committed the same abuses and tortures as the US forces committed in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay prisons. It reminds me a lot.
Regarding the conditions of the prisoners, the analyst said, they are kept blindfolded for at least 18 hours a day. Perhaps four to six hours of standing a day. Due to this, the organs of many prisoners have become non-functional.
Source: Al-Jazeera