Palestinians need treatments due to the “brutality to which they were subject” by the Israeli authorities.
Seven Palestinians released by Israel on Saturday as part of the Gaza cease-fire agreement were admitted to hospitals when they arrived in Ramallah, the Palestinian prisoners’ club said.
Israel published a total of 183 Palestinians on Saturday in exchange for three captives published by Hamas.
The penitentiary service of Israel said in a statement that the prisoners “had been transferred from several prisons across the country” before being taken to the occupied West Bank, occupied by East Jerusalem and Gaza.
Over 100 Palestinians returned to the Gaza Strip.
“All the prisoners who have been released today need medical care, treatment and exams following the brutality to which they have been submitted in recent months. There are seven who were transferred to the hospital, “said Abdullah al-Zaghari, head of the NGO, quoted by the AFP news agency.
The Palestinian red crescent confirmed that seven released prisoners had been admitted to hospitals.
The fifth exchange of captive prisoners since the ceasefire entered into force last month, negotiations should start the next phase of the agreement which could open the way to a permanent end to war.
It is estimated that 4,500 Palestinians are detained in Israeli prisons – 310 of them detained under what is called “administrative detention” without right to a trial.
Dozens of Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons last week showed signs of torture and famine, according to the company of the Palestinian prisoner.
“Whenever prisoners are released, we find the bodies of prisoners reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including unprecedented torture in its level after October 7, crimes of famine, systematic medical crimes and the Infection of a certain number of them with scabies, in addition to the serious blows to which the prisoners were submitted before their release, which continued for days according to many of their testimonies, and which, in some cases, have Led to rib fractures, “the organization said in a statement last week.
One of the released Palestinians said: “In the past 15 months, we have been exposed to the most brutal torture … The Israelis treated us in a human. They treated animals better than us. »»
Basil Farraj, analyst of the University of Birzeit, said that the liberation of the Palestinians “does not end the brutal conditions” to which others are subject to Israeli prisons. He said that the Palestinians are treated as “sub-human” by the Israeli authorities.
He warned that Israel is likely to stop some of those who have been released as in the past.
