Two Palestinian institutions concerned with prisoners’ rights said that Israel agreed to visit Gaza Strip prisoners in its prisons starting next July, but they indicated that this visit “is subject to any amendments or developments.”
The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority (governmental) and the Prisoners’ Club (Ahli) said – in a joint statement – that “approval has been obtained to visit them (the Gaza prisoners) next July, but this approval remains subject to any amendments or developments that may occur, in In light of the significant restrictions imposed by the occupation on Gaza detainees and on the work of human rights institutions.”
The statement said that the two institutions are making efforts “in cooperation with other institutions, in order to follow up on the issue of Gaza detainees, which constitutes the most important and greatest challenges facing the institutions.”
He did not specify who would make the visit, but they are following up on the prisoners’ cases through a number of lawyers.
He pointed to “recent amendments to the legal regulations for Gaza detainees, which allow for the disclosure of their places of detention and visits,” according to the statement.
According to the two institutions, “After 8 months of the war of extermination in Gaza, (…) the occupation refused to reveal the names of the detainees or any data related to them, as well as their living, life and health conditions.”
The statement pointed out that “legal teams were still prevented from visiting them, and that they were detained in secret camps and prisons” while practicing “all forms of beating, torture and abuse, which led to hundreds of them being injured, burned, fractured and amputations, and dozens were martyred, according to what was announced in the occupation media.” .
Earlier, yesterday, Monday, 3 human rights organizations, namely the Commission, the Club, and the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, said that the data available to them about prisoners does not include the numbers of arrests from Gaza.
She added, “The occupation recently admitted that it arrested at least 4,000 citizens from Gaza, 1,500 of whom were released, noting that the occupation arrested hundreds of Gaza workers in the West Bank, in addition to citizens from Gaza who were in the West Bank for the purpose of treatment.”
On June 3, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a special statement from an army source stating that “among the deaths being investigated are 36 cases of prisoners held in the Sde Teman military detention facility near the city of Beersheba (south).”
According to the newspaper, “about 4,000 Gazans have been arrested in Israel since the war began on October 7.”
Israel continues its war on Gaza despite orders from the International Court of Justice to immediately stop the ground attack on the city of Rafah (south), and to take temporary measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.
Israel also ignores the request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, to issue international arrest warrants against its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its Defense Minister, Yoav Galat.
The Israeli war on Gaza left more than 121,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
