The Human Rights Council discussed the first report of the Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albaniz, which dealt with the reality of Palestinian detainees and prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons.

Al-Baniz presented a summary of her report before the Council, in which she exposed the occupying power's violations of international laws and conventions related to political detainees and in cases of foreign occupation.

Speaking in the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur were: the European Union, the African Group, the Islamic Group, the Arab Group, the Group of Cooperation Council States, and Venezuela on behalf of a number of countries. Several countries, in their national capacity from the various groups, submitted interventions, most of which confirmed that what Israel, the occupying power, is doing against Palestinian detainees amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling on Israel to abide by its legal obligations.

Likewise, Palestinian and friendly civil society organizations presented interventions on the suffering of Palestinian detainees and Israeli violations against them.

The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, Ambassador Ibrahim Khreishi, gave the speech of the State of Palestine, in which he expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Special Rapporteur for preparing this first report before the Human Rights Council, which comes within the framework of implementing the mandate of the rapporteur established in 1993 and related to the investigation of violations by the occupying power of the principles and foundations of international law. Human rights in the land of the State of Palestine, which was occupied in 1967.

He said, "We would like to express our support for the work of the Special Rapporteur within this mandate, with our condemnation of attempts to target this mandate and those in charge of it always, and this is not strange, as Israel refuses to cooperate with the Human Rights Council and its various mechanisms, including the mandate of the Special Rapporteur as well as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights." Human".

Khreishi continued, "The report is under consideration and is related to the situation of prisoners and detainees and the arbitrary and deliberate mistreatment they are subjected to, and through illegal practices using detention to prevent the Palestinian people from exercising their right to resist the occupation and the use of methods of threat, extortion, repression, assault, torture and medical neglect, in addition to transferring detainees outside areas of the occupied territory, including the use of administrative detention for repeated and long periods without any legal evidence, all of which constitute violations of the laws of The Hague and the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and the First Protocol, as well as violations of the rules of customary humanitarian law, which are complementary elements of crimes against humanity and war crimes, in addition to that detention Arbitrary deprivation of liberty is a flagrant violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as a violation and violation of the Convention against Torture and a violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits depriving children of their liberty.

He added: "Since the occupation that began in 1967 until today, more than a million Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip have been arrested, and there are still more than 5,000 detainees, including 1,000 administrative detainees, 32 women, and 160 detainees." children under the age of 18 years.

And he added: "As a result of torture and ill-treatment, 237 prisoners have been martyred in the occupation prisons since 1967, including 75 as a result of the crime of medical negligence, the latest of which was the martyrdom of Nasser Abu Hamid and Khader Adnan, and there are 24 of the current detainees suffering from cancer and tumors of varying degrees, including the prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been arrested for more than 37 years, and there are many examples of the way the occupation forces dealt with activists and human rights defenders and arrested them, as happened with Engineer Muhammad Al-Halabi, Director General of the International Vision Organization, who was arrested and underwent the longest trial in history, without presenting any charges or charges. evidence, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Khreishi said: "The details contained in the report based on legal evidence require the United Nations, the various international institutions, and the High Parties to the Geneva Conventions, to work to put pressure on the occupying power to implement the recommendations contained in the report, especially the use of diplomatic, political and economic measures." As a tool of pressure, not to provide any aid or assistance to the occupying power and to prosecute the perpetrators of the crimes mentioned in this report under universal jurisdiction, as well as not to contribute to or condone the Israeli settler-colonial apartheid, and the attempts to criminalize the Palestinian people who demand the collective right to exist and struggle in all forms, which are consistent with the provisions of the law, leading to an end to the illegal occupation and the exercise of our people's inalienable right to self-determination.