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Hamas urges world to protect Palestinian prisoners from Israeli torture

Monday, 13 January 2025 3:52 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 13 January 2025 3:52 PM ]

Palestinians abducted by Israel from the Gaza Strip are seen at a courtyard in a prison south of the occupied territories, on February 14, 2024.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called on the international community to address torture and violations against the Palestinians being held in Israeli jails.

In a statement released on Monday, Hamas denounced the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners and demanded an end to "the terrible violations they are subjected to by the extremist Zionist junta”.

“They are ongoing war crimes, a violation of all international laws on prisoners,” the statement read. “We also call on international human rights institutions to highlight the suffering of our families in prisons, raise their voices, and put pressure in all forums to release them.”

Elsewhere in the statement, the Palestinian group said most recently, Moataz Abu Zneid from Dora, south of al-Khalil, was killed due to “torture and brutal measures”.

Abu Zneid was held in notorious Ramon prison where his health condition seriously deteriorated. However, the Israeli prison administration deliberately delayed transferring him to the hospital until he fell into a coma.

He was later transferred to Soroka Hospital on January 6. He was pronounced dead last night, January 12, 2025.

In a new report on Sunday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Israel was torturing Palestinian prisoners and detainees, depriving them of their most basic human rights at an underground prison in the occupied city of Ramla.

The Geneva-based independent organization said that the appalling humanitarian condition of prisoners and detainees at the center gravely violates the international standards for detention conditions.

Blood behind bars: How Israeli jails have turned into slaughter houses for Palestinians

Almost 70 Palestinians, many of them unidentified, have been tortured to death by the Israeli regime in its prisons since October 2023 amid the genocidal war on Gaza.

Rights groups in recent months have urged the international community to carry out its legal responsibilities to prevent the genocidal treatment of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli regime, not only in detention camps and prisons but also across Gaza and the occupied West Bank

In addition to thousands of Gaza residents whose numbers or detention locations are unknown and who have been forcibly disappeared, the Israeli regime is detaining over 10,400 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in their jails.

Hamas has roundly denounced the ongoing atrocities against Palestinian prisoners at Israeli jails, stressing that an end to their sufferings at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime was among the core issues of the large-scale surprise operation launched by Gaza-based resistance groups in October 2023.

Since the inception of the Israeli war on Gaza in October 2023, at least 46,580 people have been killed, most of them children and women. The entire Gaza’s 2.3 million population has also been displaced and much of the besieged territory is in ruins.

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