RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoners’ club has announced that it intends to launch an international campaign aimed at prosecuting Israeli officials accused of committing “war crimes” against Palestinian prisoners.
This announcement came after the club held an emergency meeting to discuss the successive developments in Israeli prisons especially the last Israeli aggressions against Palestinian prisoners in the Negev prison which resulted in the death of prisoner Mohamed Al-Ashqar and injury of 30 others.
The club announced that it is ready to receive any information confirmed with a sworn testimony on assaults against Palestinian prisoners as well as testimonies and letters from the assaulted prisoners themselves about any assaults attached with dates names of jails and prison officials in order to prepare prosecution files meeting legal requirements.
The club added that law-oriented organizations and international jurists will assume responsibility for filing lawsuits with special courts in the world.
In another context Hamas prisoners in the Israeli Shatta prison stated in a press release that the international community is obliged to protect the Palestinian people in face of Israeli continued assaults against them because they are defenseless people living under military occupation.
The prisoners called on the Arab and Islamic world to play an effective role and put pressure during international and regional conferences on the world policy makers to balance their positions and bridle the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people.
In another context lawyer of the prisoners studies and research center Ahmed Shawahna confirmed that the health conditions of Palestinian prisoners in the Ramla prison hospital are deteriorating where the hospital lacks the minimum of medical supplies and care pointing out that most of the Palestinian prisoners in the hospital have movement disabilities and find no one to help them.
Shawahna appealed in a statement received by the PIC to international medical and human rights organizations especially Médecins Sans Frontières organization to work on saving the Palestinian prisoners in the Ramla hospital and getting them released because they already spent long periods in Israeli prisons.
Furthermore the Ahrar center for prisoners studies revealed that the representatives of the Negev prisoners agreed with the director of Israeli prisons’ authority that prison officers sent to search cells will not carry firearms and night searches will stop.
The Negev prisoners also extracted many of their rights including the prevention of bodily search against their families during visits and allowing academic studies inside the prison.
The Ahrar center called on all human rights organizations to visit the Negev prison in order to document the Israeli violations and assaults that happened in the prison and to go to the Soroka hospital to report on the serious health status of Palestinian prisoners there.
