292 human rights and civil institutions condemned in a joint statement the continued detention of about 4650 prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers.
According to the joint statement the prisoners include (32) female and girl captives about (180) minors under the age of 18 and (780) administrative detainees including two females and four children. There are also (600) prisoners suffering from various diseases of whom (22) have cancer. This is in addition to (549) prisoners who were sentenced to life imprisonment once or several times.
The civil and human rights organizations called on the international community led by the United Nations the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to “pressure the occupation and apartheid entity to end the file of administrative detention and stop its use against Palestinians.”
About (780) administrative detainees including two female prisoners and four children are being held without charge the statement read noting that the number of administrative detention orders issued since the beginning of 2022 until now has reached approximately (1350).
The undersigned groups called for an immediate stop to “this systematic policy based on the abolished colonial emergency law and (called) for the widest international campaign of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in general and administrative prisoners in particular especially since there have been (30) hunger strikers since September 25th 2022 in protest against the administrative detention policy and in defense of the (780) administrative detainees.”
The organizations also affirmed that the continued detention of Palestinian prisoners which constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law especially the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and detainees is also a war crime according to Article 85 Paragraph 5 of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and in accordance with Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The statement also affirmed that what Palestinian prisoners and detainees are subjected to in terms of arbitrary arrest physical and psychological torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment flagrantly violates international human rights law especially the Convention against Torture (1984-1987) as well as the standards adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention .
The human rights institutions condemned the policy of medical neglect and apartheid pursued by the occupying state against Palestinian female prisoners detainees and the policy of torture and solitary confinement in cells lacking the minimum conditions of human life depriving the families of prisoners of their visits and the systematic abuse and torture of male and female prisoners.
