The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates affirmed that the prisoners' issues receive a priority that befits their struggle and steadfastness in all areas of the international political, diplomatic and legal movement, which the Ministry leads under the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas.

The ministry condemned in the strongest terms, in a statement, this evening, Sunday, the violations and crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities and its various agencies against the heroic prisoners in the occupation prisons, the latest of which was the aggressive and arbitrary measures and decisions taken by the fascist Israeli minister Ben Gvir, especially his decision regarding reducing visits to the families of the prisoners.

The Ministry considered this an extension of the open war of occupation on our people in general and on the heroic prisoners in particular, in flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and the signed understandings and agreements, and in an attempt to harm the achievements of the captive movement that it achieved through its long struggle, and did not get it from the favor and generosity of the occupation. .

It held the Israeli government and its prime minister fully and directly responsible for the escalation in the Israeli aggression against the prisoners, warning against the consequences of implementing Ben Gvir's racist fascist decisions.

It called on the international community, the United Nations and its competent bodies and councils, and in the forefront the International Red Cross, to assume their responsibilities in pressuring the Israeli government to stop its oppression of our heroic prisoners, and to take the necessary measures imposed by international law to compel the occupying power to deal with them as prisoners of war, and to release them immediately.

The Ministry confirmed that it and the embassies of the State of Palestine are following up, with direct instructions from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, the concerns of the prisoners and their issues at all levels, to expose these violations and mobilize the broadest international front advocating for their cause and their rights to dignity and freedom.