Palestinian prisoners facing ‘genocide’ of their own, says rights group
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said among the “crimes” being committed against thousands of Palestinian detainees – including Palestinians in Gaza – are torture, starvation, medical negligence and sexual assault.
At least 45 prisoners have been killed while held in Israeli detention since the genocidal war on Gaza began in October last year, it said.
Palestinians already held in Israeli prisons and detention centres and inmates from the Gaza Strip placed in shadowy interrogation facilities were subjected to another form of Israeli genocide, given the unprecedented systematic crimes perpetrated against them, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in a statement carried by the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
According to Addameer, a rights group based in the West Bank city of Ramallah that supports Palestinian prisoners, Israel is currently detaining some 10,200 Palestinians, including 3,443 held under administrative detention, a widely criticised practice that involves holding Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable six-month periods.
The PPS said that among the detainees were at least 775 minors from the West Bank, while pointing out that 136 medical personnel were detained since the onset of the Gaza genocide, including 59 medical personnel who remain in detention. As part of the 59 in detention, there are 6 female journalists and at least 32 media personnel from the Gaza Strip.
It added that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued over 10,000 administrative detention orders since the beginning of the genocidal aggression, including administrative detention orders issued against minors and women.
