The Palestinian embassy to Zimbabwe condemned Israel’s brutal mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
The embassy condemned “in the strongest terms Israel occupation authority’s acts of collective punishment through brutal raids and attacks towards Palestinian detainees and their family members, following the break free of the six Palestinians freedom fighters from Israeli’s high security Gilboa jail.”
“Israeli apartheid authority has embarked on a terror campaign against the Palestinian administrative detainees and their families by escalating its aggression through brutal assaults, arrests, torture, solitary confinement, denial of their provision of food and water among other human rights guaranteed to them by the international law. Palestinians live in appalling conditions and are subjected to harsh treatment such as physical and psychological abuse: arbitrary beatings, excessive use of solitary confinement, torture and the denial of family visits,” it added.
It pointed that there about 520 Palestinian administrative detainees and 4650 political prisoners, including 200 children and 40 women. More than 230 Palestinians have died in Israeli occupation jails through torture, medical negligence by Israeli prison officials and real intentions to kill them.
While stressing that Israeli raids and attacks constitute war crimes that require urgent international intervention and that “collective punishment is prohibited under international law” an, the embassy called on “Israel to free all Palestinian detainees held in administrative detention without charge in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
It expressed the State of Palestine’s disappointment with the international community’s failure to take action against Israeli violations in the occupied territories since 1967.
“We therefore, call on the international community to condemn and hold Israeli occupation power for its crimes against Palestinians,” it concluded.
Source: Palestinian News & info Agency