The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Al Mezan Center, and Al-Haq called for an end to the “forced disappearance” of hundreds of detainees from the Gaza Strip, inside Israeli detention centers.
The three human rights organizations called for “an end to the state of forced disappearance imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities, to which hundreds of Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip are subjected, including dozens of women.”
On Sunday, the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority (governmental) and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (non-governmental) announced that “the occupation is detaining 142 female prisoners from Gaza, including infant girls, in its prisons.”
The three institutions called on “the relevant authorities to intervene to reveal the fate and names of the detainees, to stop the ongoing acts of abuse and torture during arbitrary detention operations in the areas of ground incursion into the Gaza Strip…, to enable legal teams to meet with them, and to stop all torture and retaliatory measures against them.”
According to information and testimonies, the institutions say that “the (Israeli) occupation forces have continued for several days mass arrests of hundreds of civilian residents, especially residents of northern Gaza and Gaza City, whether from their homes or inside shelter centers in schools affiliated with UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). ).
She said that these forces force detainees “to take off their clothes, line up in lines, and sit in the streets almost naked in a humiliating position, in addition to subjecting them to torture and abuse, before taking them piled on top of each other in trucks to unknown places.”
The institutions condemned “the occupation’s attempts to mislead them into being members of the resistance, which poses a threat to their lives, in addition to transferring them and dealing with them in a humiliating and degrading manner.”
It also called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to “take serious action to complete the investigation, issue arrest warrants and look into the crimes mentioned, given that they are within the court’s jurisdiction.”
On Monday, the Israeli army stormed a number of schools in the Al-Faluja area, north of the Gaza Strip, arrested men and expelled women and children, amid an atmosphere of panic and fear that prevailed among them.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Monday evening, has left more than 18,000 dead and about 50,000 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to official Palestinian sources.