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In a week marked by the attack by Iran and with the Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip With no signs of letting up, more than a hundred Palestinians took to the streets of the Palestinian city of Ramallah, in the Occupied West Bankto commemorate the Annual Palestinian Prisoner Day.
Hadeel Hassanein walks through the protest with a large photograph of his sister, Rula, and her young daughter. He says she hasn’t been able to see him for 30 days. “My sister was imprisoned because she is a journalist and had a problem after posting messages on Facebook and Twitter about the West Bank and Loop“This young woman explained to EFE.
Rula is one of the more than 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including 3,600 in “administrative detention” without charge or trialaccording to data from the human rights group Adalah.
There are 4,000 more prisoners than before the devastating war began in the Gaza Strip, where more than 33,800 Palestinians have been murdered, more than two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Palestinian families ask for freedom for their imprisoned loved ones
“Freedom” is the cry that was heard the most in this Wednesday’s march, which brought together more than a hundred people, many with posters or banners showing children, husbands or grandparents locked up.
One of the most visible faces among the posters was that of Marwan Barghouti, political leader sentenced to several life sentences in Israel for assassination, but who many see as the most likely successor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas, technically his political rival, has even asked for his release as part of a possible exchange for the Israeli hostages still in Gaza, in a ceasefire agreement that seems more unlikely every day.
The Islamist group today accused, in a message, the Israeli authorities of occupation, of denigrate the life and safety of the thousands of detainees in West Bank. “They are subject to the worst types of torture and abuse. We condemn the international silence in the face of the crimes of executions, murders and torture to which they are subjected,” the group said.
14 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since October 7
At least 14 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons since October 7, according to Adalah. One of the most recent cases in the media was that of Walid Daqqa, who died at the beginning of April of terminal cancerwhile Israel denied him medical treatment, after spending 38 years locked up for the death of an Israeli soldier.
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) denied Walid Daqqah access to a civilian hospital and a bone marrow transplant that could have saved his life, Amnesty International reported in August 2023. Already then, the organization demanded his release in order to allow him to spend time with his family.
Hadeel Hassanein told EFE that his sister, Rula, suffers from kidney problems and does not have access to any medication while she is detained.
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In addition, her nine-month-old daughter, who was born prematurely, suffers from several health problems. Her little girl is cared for by her father while they wait for Rula to be released. Hadeel says they don’t know when that will happen.
For many families, problems do not end with the death of their loved ones. According to the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs, At least 26 bodies of Palestinians who died in Israeli prisons are still being held by Israelaccording to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
One of those bodies is, precisely, that of Walid Daqqa. According to Adalah, who filed a lawsuit before the Israeli Supreme Court asking for him to be returned to his family, the Police even invaded the wake where they mourned his death, in Baqa al Gharbiya, Haifa district, and detained several of his relatives. while they mourned.
About 200 Palestinian children are prisoners in Israel
The Palestinian Authority Commission for Detainee Affairs reported that some 200 Palestinian children are detained in the Israeli prisons of Megiddo and Ofer, 40 of them under the figure of “administrative detention.”
This commission denounced in March the cruel measures to which they are subjected 94 Palestinian children detained in Megiddo, who are in cells without equipment, in double isolation and deprived of visits from their families.
The total number of child prisoners has been confirmed by the Palestinian Red Crescent, as well as Hamas.
The militant group has said that of the more than 9,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, there are at least 80 women, fifty journalists and 17 representatives of the Government of the Gaza Strip.
And he has stressed that the liberation of all people is the central objective of the current conflict with Israel.
With information from Europapress.
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