63 Palestinian prisoners killed, over 16,400 cases of arrest recorded since start of Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip
GAZA, April 16 (YPA) – Palestinian prisoners’ institutions have confirmed that at least 63 Palestinian detainees have been martyred in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, including 40 martyrs from Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli enemy continues to conceal the identities of dozens of martyrs and withhold their bodies. The number of documented prisoner martyrs since 1967 stands at 300, the last of whom was the child Walid Ahmed from Silwad.
In a joint statement on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the prisoners’ institutions explained that torture crimes at all levels, the crime of starvation, medical crimes, and sexual assaults, including rape, constituted the primary reasons that led to the martyrdom of prisoners and detainees at a higher rate compared to any other period, based on historical monitoring and documentation available to the institutions.
Palestinian prisoners’ institutions pointed out that testimonies and statements from prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons, conveyed by legal teams, and testimonies documented by released detainees revealed a shocking and horrific level of systematic torture methods, particularly in the accounts of detainees from Gaza.
These testimonies included, in addition to torture, unprecedented methods of humiliation that violate human dignity, severe and repeated beatings, and deprivation of the minimum necessary conditions for life in detention.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli enemy has worked to institutionalize crimes using specific tools and methods, requiring the international human rights system to view them as a new phase that threatens all of humanity, not just the Palestinians. This also applies to the issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
The institutions pointed out that the far-right Israeli enemy government had escalated its incitement campaigns and targeting of prisoners since before the war of genocide. It was clear that this was part of an escalation of its criminality against detainees through repression and attempts to strip them of their remaining rights.
The period preceding the extermination was a prelude to its intentions, which called for their execution through its extremist minister, Ben Gvir, who represented the entire occupation system, which worked to incite prisoners to kill them and shoot them in the head to solve the problem of overcrowding in prisons.
The total number of arrests since the beginning of the genocide war in the Gaza Strip has reached 16,400, including more than 510 women and approximately 1,300 children. This figure does not include the thousands of arrests from Gaza, including women and children, as the crime of enforced disappearance was the most prominent crime committed by the Israeli enemy against detainees in Gaza and continues to be.
YPA