Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman censures torture of Palestinians in Israeli jails
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has censured the torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli prison authorities, calling on human rights groups and international organizations to fulfill their legal and humanitarian responsibilities in this regard.
Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks in a post on his X account on Saturday, while referring to a report released by The Washington Post on July 29 about the “medieval torture” of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
Kan’ani went on to say that the disclosure of such abuses against Palestinians in Israeli prisons was only “the tip of the iceberg.”
He also noted that the leaked reports of tortures and crimes committed in the Israeli regime’s notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev Desert indicate that the occupying regime has set new records compared to the US prisons of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
In a report on Monday, The Washington Post revealed alarming accounts of rampant violence and deprivation in Israeli jails and detention centers.
The American daily newspaper Washington Post, quoting doctors from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) reported that at least 12 Palestinians from the West Bank and the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories have died from abuse in Israeli prisons since October 7 last year when the bloody Israeli onslaught on Gaza started.
The report also included witness accounts about the suffering of three of those dead inmates.
Israel has kidnapped more than 9,100 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023.
Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.
Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.
According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, many of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.
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