Our Prisoners are on a Date with Freedom

and the Operations of Abuse and Torture Against them

are Signs of the Fall of the Occupation

This year, the anniversary of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day once again carried good tidings of emancipation and liberation from prison and the jailer. The “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle was a fulfilled oath for all the fighters in the occupation prisons, where those who spent decades behind weirs and the oppression of the prison and the jailer.

The anniversary came at a time when The Palestinian Prisoner Movement in Israeli detention facilities was subjected to a real massacre of violations that included field executions, amputation of hands and feet, sexual harassment, and rape, in addition to the enforced disappearance of thousands of detainees who suffer terrible torture out of compliance with international conventions.

 However, The Palestinian Prisoner Movement has accustomed us to patience and the inevitability of confrontation and victory, and as it records with its patience and steadfastness signs of dignity and pride. It is only an hour away from freedom and the time for liberation has come and every Palestinian home will rejoice over its liberated prisoners, who fought for all Palestinian land and people.

 The occupation›s attempts to break the resolve of our people with systematic daily base detention campaigns will only increase their resistance. Detention, torture, and starvation of more than 9,312 Palestinians are only an indication of the extent of the breakdown that the Israeli war machine is experiencing in the Gaza Strip, which has been unable to break the steadfastness of our people there, through tireless resistance for seven months of war and to protect its pledge to release our prisoners and whitewash prisons.

The International Organization of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners (Tadamon), as part of its support and solidarity with Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, confirms the following:

1-  The need to address, legally and in the media, field executions against prisoners and detainees outside prisons, during detention, and after it, which was revealed by conducting field investigations with detainees and executing them immediately, as happened in Al-Shifa Hospital. In addition to the execution of 27 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza in field detention camps as a result of torture, medical negligence, and the martyrdom of 16 prisoners inside Israeli detention facilities.

2-    The necessity of exposing the escalating practices of the Israeli occupation in arbitrary administrative detention and its use in contravention of International Laws and the pre-emptive measures that must be taken by the occupying state, as cases of detention have risen since last October 7th to more than 8,270 cases of administrative detention or renewal order of the detention. 

3-   The need to stop the policy of collective punishment of prisoners and their families, by stopping the policy of demolishing homes, confiscating their money, and preventing them from visiting their families or the International Red Cross. 

4-  The need to stop the policy of enforced disappearance and torture followed immediately after detention or in investigation cells, which uses brutal methods and serious violations in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law, especially towards resistance detainees in Gaza, as the occupation forces admitted the dissimulation of 849 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who were forcibly disappeared and treated as unlawful combatants.

5-   The necessity of providing appropriate treatment for prisoners and stopping the policy of deliberate medical negligence practiced by the Israeli Prison Service, as happened previously and recently with the prisoner and martyr Walid Daqqa.

6-   The necessity for Human Rights and international institutions to stand up to an Israeli plan to expel about 450 Palestinian prisoners from East Jerusalem and the occupied territories in 1948 to areas of the Palestinian Authority, under the pretext of “alleged connections to terrorism.”

7-   The need to stop the policy of solitary confinement for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, including sick prisoners who suffer from mental and chronic health diseases.

8-    The necessity of stopping the occupation’s violations related to sexual harassment and rape of female prisoners, as confirmed by a specialized international committee.

9-   The necessity to demand visits to resistance detainees who are in underground cells, following the recommendations of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Ben Gvir, to do so, and to ensure that they are treated under international conventions and International Human Law. 

10-   The necessity of communicating with solidarity members, supporters, and partners of individuals or institutions to achieve the required effectiveness in strengthening solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.

11-   Activating digital media networks to expose Israeli practices and violations internationally and at all levels, through digital campaigns in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, so that the effort is not seasonal and to ensure continuous advocacy for them.

12-   The necessity of working to release the martyr bodies captured by the Israeli occupation by raising the issue in the media, legally and humanitarian, and forming an international human rights body to demand the release of their pure bodies.

 It is our moral, humanitarian, and religious duty to support the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons in all international, regional, and local forums and to show solidarity with them, as they are considered freedom fighters and have the right to resist the last occupying state in the current century.

      The International Organization

of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

                      (Tadamon)

  info@solidarity-ps.org