Today, Sunday, the Journalist Support Committee stated that there are more than 19 journalists, who are languishing in inhumane and harsh health conditions and deprived of all their rights, including 10 journalists who are detained by actual sentences, and 4 journalists who are administratively detained and whose detention is renewed several times, except for the arrest of 5 journalists. others without trial.

In a statement, the committee warned, on the eve of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day , which falls on the seventeenth of April of each year, against the Israeli occupation's continued torture of journalist prisoners in prisons, the adoption of a policy of isolation against prisoners, and the denial of religious rituals, especially during the blessed month of Ramadan.

She said: "The occupation uses the most heinous methods of torture against the journalist prisoners, such as beatings, shabeh, and sleep deprivation, and uses them with the most heinous psychological and physical means that exhaust their health in order to extract confessions."

The committee emphasized that the Israeli occupation prison administration continues to disregard the lives of detained media professionals and refuses to release them after the end of their sentences, and follows a policy of medical negligence (slow killing) with patients, including the tools of abuse, most notably delaying treatment and diagnosing the disease.

Among them, the imprisoned writer and journalist Walid Daqqa, warned of his critical health condition, following his admission to the intensive care unit at Barzilai Hospital in the city of Ashkelon, after he underwent an operation two days ago, during which part of his right lung was removed.

The committee called on international and human rights institutions to intervene in order to stop the policy of arresting and detaining journalists in harsh conditions, and to provide them with protection while performing their journalistic duties, and to send an investigation committee to stand up to the escalating occupation crimes against them in the Palestinian territories, to ensure that they are not attacked.

It also demanded the need for international intervention to release the detained journalists and protect the media prisoners from the crimes of the occupation, especially the patients, with the escalation of serious cases inside prisons and deliberate medical neglect without follow-up or any health care.

The "Journalists' Support" called on the International Red Cross to intervene to find out the health status of (4) journalists and media workers who are isolated in solitary confinement cells, by decisions of the Israeli intelligence, and who are sentenced to actual sentences.

It strongly condemned the shameful international silence towards the captive playwright Walid Abu Daqqa, who spent (37 years) the flower of his youth and life behind bars and in the cells and detention centers of the Israeli occupation, where he is subjected to real medical negligence that may lead to the loss of his life at any moment.

The committee expressed its disapproval of the occupation's policy by following the method of extending the administrative detention of a number of journalists detained in the occupation prisons without charge, confirming the arrest of journalists under flimsy pretexts, and detaining others without charge for several years. According to her saying.

And she called on all journalists in the world to strengthen solidarity on the Palestinian Prisoner's Day with Palestinian journalists and various media outlets, which are subjected to grave and systematic violations by the Israeli occupation forces.