PALESTINE
Mon 29 Jul 2024 7:56 pm - Jerusalem Time
Fares calls on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the occupation's crimes against detainees
Qadura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority, called on the international community, with all its official institutions, to urgently intervene to stop the ongoing and unprecedented crimes of the occupation against Palestinian prisoners, both male and female, for about 10 months.
In a press release, in light of the new rape crime committed by a group of prison guards in the Sde Teiman camp against a detainee, he called for exerting the most severe pressure to rein in the occupying state and deter it, by forming an urgent UN investigation committee, to be given a comprehensive and binding mandate to stop the horrific crimes to which detainees are exposed in general, and in the Sde Teiman camp in particular, which was the most prominent station for torture and rape crimes.
Fares stressed that "Sde Teiman" as a space represents the entire occupation system, and there are many testimonies documented by specialized institutions that include sexual assaults and crimes in other prisons.
“The farce that the occupation military police came up with, and their arrest of a number of soldiers, aims to mislead world public opinion. Investigating a single rape case, and ignoring thousands of other crimes, aims to create misleading impressions in the world that Israel is a ‘state’ of law, knowing that if it were, the military police would have been more appropriate to arrest the Minister of War Galant, and the extremist Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has been a symbol of incitement to kill and execute detainees over the past years,” he said.
He reiterated that Israel's crimes against detainees no longer have any conceivable limits or ceiling, and they constitute a facet of the ongoing war of extermination. "Every day, as we witness the massacres against our people in Gaza, we hear horrific and harsh testimonies from legal teams and from detainees who are released."
Fares also renewed his call for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against the leaders of the occupation, considering that "the continued hesitation in implementing this falls within the green light that has been given to Israel over the decades to continue its crimes and carry out more erasure operations against our people, which are represented today in their largest form through the war of genocide."
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Fares calls on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the occupation's crimes against detainees