By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
Nazi Occupied Palestine: On the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner Day, which falls on the 17th of April of each year, the captive movement said in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, “This day passes on us in exceptional circumstances, and we live a daily complex war against the jailer and the epidemic.”
She added that “despite the intransigence of the occupation, its injustice and its various obstacles, the will of life will remain victorious over the death machine.”
She pointed out that “the administration of the occupation prisons did not live up to the proper treatment that it is obligated to protect us, as we are at a distance from the prison to convey this epidemic to us.”
It also confirmed that the prison administration was accustomed to their rights and gains for which hundreds of martyrs rose, and for which they fought dozens of strikes, taking advantage of the humanitarian concern with this epidemic.
The captive movement said: “We are about to enter in steps of escalating fateful steps to hear our voice for everyone concerned, and that our battle with this epidemic will not deter us from facing the repression of the jailer and his criminal decisions against us.”
The captive movement issued an urgent appeal to all the freedmen of our Palestinian people that the freedom of prisoners is a right that must be enforced.
She also saluted all medical teams defending the lives of our people in the first ranks against this epidemic, and in all fields of emancipation, and also praised the advanced role of various media outlets, and all activists of social media platforms for their supportive stand with the prisoners.
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Fact sheet: a threat to the prisoners and calls for their release
Nazi Occupied Palestine: As part of a fact sheet issued today, Thursday, on the occasion of the Prisoner’s Day, the institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs confirmed that approximately 1,324 Palestinians have been arrested by the Nazi occupation forces.
And human rights organizations added that among the detainees since the beginning of this year, 210 children and 31 women, and 295 administrative detention orders were issued against prisoners by the occupation authorities.
This came within a fact sheet issued by the Prisoners ’Institutions: Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Al-Dameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Center for Defense of Freedoms and Civil Rights“ Hurriyat ”.
The institutions said that since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic began, the occupation has continued to arrest Palestinians, during which last March 357 Palestinians from the occupied territories were arrested, including 48 children and four women.
And the Nazi occupation authorities are holding 5 thousand Palestinian prisoners in its prisons, among them 41 female prisoners in “Damoon” Nazi Camp, 180 children of minors distributed in “Ofer” and “Megiddo” and “Damon” Nazi Camp, and about 430 administrative detainees.
As for the old prisoners held before the signing of the Oslo agreement, they are 26 prisoners, the oldest of whom are the two captives, Karim Younis and Maher Younes, who have been in detention since 1983.
The prisoner, Nael Al-Barghouthi, is considered to have the longest detention period in the captive movement’s history, with a total of 40 years, of which he spent 34 years continuously.
The institutions indicated that 51 Palestinian prisoners exceeded their detention period of 20 years, and they are known as “Deans of Prisoners”, as 14 of them have been arrested for more than 30 years in a row.
As for the life imprisonment prisoners, who number 541, the highest ruling among them is for the prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouthi, whose duration is 67 life-long.
With regard to the martyrs of the captive movement, they are 222 martyrs, since 1967, in addition to hundreds of prisoners who were martyred after their liberation, as a result of diseases they had suffered in prisons.
The number of prisoners killed by the occupation as a result of the policy of slow killing by means of deliberate medical negligence, which is part of a consistent and systematic policy, has reached 67 prisoners since 1967.
Over the past year, five prisoners have been martyred in prisons as a result of medical negligence and torture. They are: Fares Baroud, Omar Awni Younis, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Al-Sayeh, and Sami Abu Diyak.
The Nazi occupation authorities are holding the bodies of the martyrs prisoners; Anis Dawla, who was martyred in Ashkelon prison in 1980, Aziz Owaisat since 2018, Faris Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, and Bassam Al-Sayeh, all three of whom were martyred during the past year 2019.
As for the sick prisoners, they number about 700, of whom approximately 300 are chronic patients who need continuous treatment, and at least there are ten cases of cancer and tumors of varying degrees, among them the prisoner Fouad Al-Shobaki (81 years), who is the oldest of the prisoners.
The institutions said in a joint statement that tomorrow, April 17, marks the national and international day for supporting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, which was approved by the Palestinian National Council, as the supreme authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1974, and considered it a day to unite efforts and activities to support them, and support Their legitimate right to freedom.
She explained that this day falls on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Khalil Al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), and the arrest of the prisoner Marwan Barghouti, in difficult circumstances experienced by the prisoners in the occupation prisons this year, due to the danger of the spread of the Corona virus, which is accompanied by disdain by the occupation prisons administration with the fate of the prisoners , And the lack of the necessary precautions to prevent its spread.
Faced with this real danger that threatens the lives of the prisoners, and increases their anxiety and the anxiety of their families, our people, its leadership, political forces and all its institutions demand the international community with all its components and levels, and at the head of it the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to bear his legal and moral responsibility, and urgently intervene to put pressure on the occupation government, and hold it Responsibility for the prisoners’ lives, and obliging them to release them, foremost among them the sick and the elderly, and the prisoners, children and administrators.
In contrast to the continuous calls for the release of the prisoners, the occupation authorities continue to exercise their systematic policies to target the prisoners, and still strike by wall all the obligations they have as an occupying Power, and even challenge the provisions of international humanitarian law in this regard, and continue daily arrests among Palestinian citizens, including That administrative detention.
On the day of the captive, 5,000 people remain in the cells of the Nazi occupation
Nazi Occupied Palestine : Today, Friday, the seventeenth of April, marks the day of the Palestinian prisoner, while 5,000 Palestinians are still languishing behind the occupation, including women, children, the elderly and the sick.
In the details presented by the Prisoners Club, 41 of the prisoners are held in Damoon Prison until yesterday, when the mother of the martyr Ashraf Na’alawah, the prisoner, Wafa Mahdawi, was released.
In the prisons, the occupation forces also detain 180 children and minors distributed in the prisons of Ofer, Majd and Damoon.
Since the signing of the Oslo Agreement, the occupation forces have arrested 26 prisoners, the oldest of whom are the two prisoners, Karim Younis, and Maher Younis, who have been detained continuously since 1983.
While the prisoner, Nael Al-Barghouthi, spent the longest period of detention in the captive movement’s history, with a total of 40 years, of which he spent 34 years continuously, and was liberated in 2011 in the (Wafaa Al-Ahrar) deal, until he was re-arrested in 2014.
There are also 51 prisoners who have been detained for 20 years, and they are known as prisoners’ prisoners. Among them are 14 prisoners who have been detained for more than 30 years, respectively.
The number of life prisoners is 541, and the highest prisoner ruling is among them, Abdullah Abdullah Al-Barghouthi, whose duration is 67 life imprisonment.
The occupation administratively arrests approximately 430 prisoners, and the Nazi occupation also arrests 13 journalists. As for the sick prisoners, they number approximately 700, of whom approximately 300 are chronic patients in need of continuous treatment, and at least there are ten cases of cancer and tumors of varying degrees, including the prisoner Fouad al-Shobaki (81) General, the oldest prisoner.
While he has risen in the prison, 222 martyrs, and that since 1967 AD, in addition to hundreds of prisoners who were martyred after their liberation due to diseases they inherited from prisons, while the number of prisoners who the occupation said as a result of the policy of slow medical killing through procedures of deliberate medical negligence – which is part of a fixed and systematic policy It reached 67 since 1967.
During the past year 2019, five prisoners of martyrs were elevated inside prisons due to medical negligence and torture: Fares Baroud, Omar Awni Younis, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Al-Sayeh and Sami Abu Diyak.
The Nazi occupation is holding the bodies of martyrs of the prisoners who are Anis Dawla, who was martyred in Ashkelon prison in 1980, Aziz Owaisat since 2018, Faris Baroud, supporters of Taqatqa, and Bassam Al-Sayeh and all three were martyred during the past year.
