GAZA (PIC)– Waed association to support Palestinian prisoners called on International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights organizations to press on the IOA in order to allow prisoners’ children to visit their parents in Israeli prisons.
Waed said in a statement that “the occupation which had banned completely family visits six years ago has allowed a limited number of prisoners’ families to visit their sons after the prisoners’ historic hunger strike pointing out that they only allowed the visits of the prisoners’ fathers mothers and wives.
The association called on the International Red Cross to “play a stronger role in facilitating and accomplishing this purely humanitarian task” noting that “the Israeli excuses concerning this file are flimsy and false justification” stressing that “if there is a real pressure on the occupation the result will be positive.”
Waed carried out a periodical program of visits to prisoners’ families in their homes in this holiday midterm where it received appeals from prisoners children in this matter.
