The Hamas Movement called for holding Israeli leaders accountable for committing torture crimes against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and pushing by all means for releasing them immediately.
This came in a statement by Hamas on Wednesday, on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which is celebrated by the United Nations and the international community.
Hamas indicated that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been subjected to the worst forms of brutal revenge, including starvation, humiliation, abuse, deliberate medical neglect, deprivation of food and medicine, breaking prisoners’ limbs, slow killing, and field executions.
The statement revealed that the number of martyrs who have died due to torture in Israeli prisons since the start of the genocidal aggression on the Strip on October 7 last year reached about 60 detainees, including 40 prisoners from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas underscored that torture crimes are committed as part of the Israeli punishment policy pursued against Palestinian prisoners.
Torturing prisoners represents a blatant violation and clear ignorance of all international conventions, laws, and norms, Hamas added.
The Movement called for exerting international pressure to oblige Israel to allow families to visit their imprisoned relatives, and to allow visits by human rights and humanitarian organizations to check on the prisoners and inform about their detention conditions.
