GAZA, (PIC)
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Society confirmed the martyrdom of prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi, who was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces from the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, due to torture in the Sde Teiman detention camp.
The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Society, in a joint statement, said that “the prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi (42 years old) was arrested during the latest Israeli occupation forces’ incursion into the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.”
The statement added that “the prisoner Al-Sarsawi was martyred due to being subjected to torture inside the Sde Teiman camp, and he is one of dozens who have martyred in the Israeli prisons and detention centers and whose identities are still concealed by the occupation authorities.”
It clarified that “according to verified information, Al-Sarsawi was martyred four months ago and the prisoners’ institutions obtained confirmed information about his fate only today (Thursday 1/8/2024).”
The Authority and the Society said in the joint statement that the martyr prisoner Al-Sarsawi was a police officer, and he was arrested along with dozens from inside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and their fate or places of detention were not revealed at the time, due to enforced disappearance.
The statement indicated that with the martyrdom of the prisoner Al-Sarsawi, the number of martyrs of the prisoners’ movement since 1967 has risen to 257, including 20 who have died since the start of the genocide war on Gaza in October last year, who have had their identities announced, in addition to dozens of detainees from Gaza who have been martyred, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.
The Prisoner Affairs and the Society called on the international community to take immediate action to stop the crime of enforced disappearance, and the unprecedented escalation of torture crimes within the Israeli prisons and camps.
The statement said that “the administration of the occupation prisons now has greater support than ever before, with a political decision from the occupation government, to kill the prisoners, as the prisoners experience the harshest and most severe stages due to the escalating crimes of torture and humiliation.”
The Prisoner Affairs and the Society called for the speedy formation of a comprehensive UN investigative committee, to investigate all the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian prisoners.
The number of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons has reached more than 9,900, and this data does not include all the detainees from Gaza.
