Arab League denounces torture and degrading treatment suffered by thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons

Aug. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Arab League on Saturday denounced the torture and degrading treatment suffered by thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and secret detention centres since the start of the Israeli retaliation operation following the attack by Palestinian Gazan militias in which 1,200 people died.

Arab countries have condemned these practices coinciding with the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, which is being celebrated this Saturday, and have denounced the “brutal nature” of the Israeli “occupation” and its “genocidal and destructive war in Gaza,” according to the Egyptian state newspaper ‘Al Ahram’.

The text refers to the “disturbing” testimony of Palestinians who have been released by Israel which “confirms the systematic and continuous commission of violent torture and inhuman and degrading ill-treatment against thousands of Palestinian civilians.”

He also warned of “dozens” of cases in which the Israeli Armed Forces have used detained civilians as human shields, cases that are documented, and the existence of similar cases in the West Bank.

The Council therefore urges the international community and the Red Cross to assume their responsibilities towards these prisoners and calls on human rights organisations to intervene immediately and force Israel, as the occupying power, to comply with the Geneva Conventions on prisoners.

It has also called on international courts to “break their silence” and adopt concrete measures against the “brutal torture” and “collective revenge and dehumanization to which Palestinian prisoners are subjected.”

The Arab League also expressed its “solidarity and absolute support” for the Palestinian prisoners and its “pride in the Palestinian resistance.” “They express their firm belief in the victory of the Palestinians of character until the achievement of an independent state with its capital in Jerusalem,” it added.

The Arab League also denounced the expulsion of “thousands” of Palestinian civilians from their homes in the Gaza Strip, including elderly people, women and children. It also said that 10,000 people had been arrested in the West Bank.

“These repressive policies are a direct consequence of the brutality exercised by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people in the face of the silence of the international community,” he said.

The Arab League calls on the media and human rights organisations to denounce these “inhuman” practices such as deliberate starvation, thirst, torture, sexual assault, medical crimes, isolation and humiliation in flagrant violation of international law.