Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed on Thursday evening the martyrdom of prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi (42 years old) from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza, who was arrested during the recent storming of Al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of being subjected to torture inside the (Sde Teiman) camp. He is one of dozens of detainees who have died in the occupation’s prisons and camps, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.
The two institutions confirmed in a joint statement that, “according to the information that was verified, Al-Sarsawi was martyred four months ago, until they obtained confirmed information about his fate today.”
The Commission and the Club explained that the martyr prisoner Al-Sarsawi was arrested along with dozens of others from inside Al-Shifa Hospital, and their fate or places of detention were not revealed at the time, as a result of the crime of enforced disappearance.
The Commission and the Club
stated that with the martyrdom of the prisoner Sarsawi, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 has risen to (257), including (20) prisoners who have been martyred since the beginning of the war of extermination, and whose identities have been announced, in addition to dozens of martyred prisoners from Gaza, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.
The Commission and the Club called on the international community institutions to take immediate action to stop the crime of enforced disappearance and the crimes of torture that are escalating in an unprecedented manner in their intensity inside the occupation prisons and camps, and not to leave the male and female prisoners as prey to the occupation prison administration and its systematic policy, which today has more support than ever and by a political decision from the colonial government, to kill them, as the prisoners are facing the harshest and most severe stages as a result of the crimes of torture and humiliation.
The
Commission and the Club called for the acceleration of the formation of a UN investigation committee with a comprehensive mandate to investigate all crimes committed by the occupation against male and female prisoners, and for the human rights system to emerge from its state of inability to stop the war of extermination and prisoner aggression, which constitutes another aspect of it.
According to the two institutions, the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons has reached more than (9900), and this number does not include all detainees from Gaza.
Source: Maan News Agency