PALESTINE
Sun 22 Oct 2023 2:08 pm - Jerusalem Time
Palestinian families call on international community to protect their children in Israeli jails
The families of detainees in Israeli occupation prisons sent a message to the international community, in which they expressed their concern for the fate of their children and their fear of the occupation singling them out and doubling its systematic crimes against them in an unprecedented manner.
In a press conference held in Al-Manara Square in the city of Ramallah, today, Sunday, the families of the detainees confirmed that since the seventh of this October, the occupation authorities have announced a series of retaliatory measures against the detainees, which included depriving them of their remaining rights and achievements that they have accumulated over decades of detention. The struggle, the simplest of which is the right to visit and provide treatment.
The letter stated: “Hence, we inform the world that, within about two weeks, the occupation prisons were transformed into Guantánamo prison. The occupation deprives our children of visits, lawyers and legal teams, stops treatment, and cuts off water and electricity. Today, our children face hunger after The occupation withdrew food supplies from them and reduced their meals.”
The families of the detainees noted that since the seventh of this month, their children have been subjected to severe beatings inside their sections, while the occupation prison administration has doubled the abuse and torture against them, while the international community is content with talking about the hostages held for two weeks in the Gaza Strip, and the world has never seen thousands of detainees in prisons. The occupation, for whom they were and still are, are mere numbers.
The families of the detainees stressed that their demand is the freedom of their children, especially female detainees, children, and the sick. They called on the international community and its human rights institutions to work immediately to achieve the justice they sing of, from which the Palestinians are excluded.
The families called on human rights institutions, led by the International Committee of the Red Cross, to act immediately and reveal the fate of the detainees, in light of the cessation of visits, and the failure to disclose the fate of the detainees and their places of detention, and for work to be done to release the Gazan workers who were prevented from returning to the Strip and were detained. In occupation army camps.
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Palestinian families call on international community to protect their children in Israeli jails