Nazi regime Escalation of torture … prisoners' institutions: 5,500 Palestinians arrested during the year 2019

By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr

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Nazi Occupied Palestine: Prisoners’ institutions reported, in their annual report, that during the year 2019, the Nazi occupation forces increased their arbitrary arrests of children and women, and the rates of prisoners subjected to torture increased.

It stated that the Nazi occupation forces arrested more than 5,500 Palestinians during the current year, including 889 children, and at least 128 women.

She confirmed that the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons reached 5,000, including 40 female prisoners, while the number of children reached nearly 200, and the number of administrative detainees reached about 450.

Prisoners’ institutions indicated that the torture issue took the lead in comparison with the past few years, particularly after August, when arrests increased.

5 martyrs prisoners 

During the year 2019, 5 prisoners were martyred: Fares Baroud, Omar Awni Younis, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Al-Sayeh and Sami Abu Diyak, and the Nazi Gestapo occupation continues to detain the bodies of 4 prisoners, including the prisoner Aziz Owaisat, who was martyred as a result of torture in 2018.

This brings the number of martyrs of the captive national movement to (222) martyrs since 1967.

The incursions and abuses committed by the repressive forces against the prisoners did not stop, and were the most severe in “Ofer, Negev, and Raymond” prisons, which are the most violent and bloody since the storming of the “Negev” prison in 2007.

Sick prisoners

The number of sick prisoners in the occupation prisons reached more than 700, among them at least 10 prisoners suffering from cancer, and the occupation continued to deprive the prisoners of adequate treatment and abuse by handcuffing them and transporting them in “middle” vehicles.

The institutions indicated that the Nazi occupation continued the policy of collective punishment that affected dozens of family members of the prisoners, whether by arresting them, summoning them, threatening them, and repeatedly breaking into their homes, except for house demolitions.

Nazi Occupation courts … the tool of repression

The Nazi occupation courts also constituted an essential tool in consolidating the violations committed against the prisoners, the most prominent of which was a decision that authorized investigators to use exceptional methods of torture in the case of the prisoner Samer Al-Arbeed.

50 individual strikes

The year 2019 saw more than 50 prisoners held individual hunger strikes, most of which rejected the policy of administrative detention. The prisoners also carried out militant steps, including mass strikes, in which dozens of them participated gradually, rejecting the repression operations that were described as the most violent for years, and the system of interference imposed by the occupation prisons administration.

Prisoners’ institutions (the Palestinian Prisoner Club, Al-Dameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, Prisoners Affairs Authority) called on all local and international organizations to take effective procedural steps to protect the Palestinian prisoner and his rights.

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