Palestine Appeals to the International Red Cross for Intervention to Protect Detainees in Occupation Prisons

SadaNews - The permanent observer of the State of Palestine at the United Nations and international organizations in Switzerland, Ambassador Ibrahim Khreishi, addressed an urgent letter to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, urging her to intervene immediately to protect the lives of Palestinian detainees who are subjected to torture, starvation, and ill-treatment in the cells of Israeli occupation prisons.

Khreishi condemned in the letter the policies of the occupation that have led to the deterioration of the health and humanitarian condition of the Central Committee member of Fatah Movement, leader Marwan Barghouti, who continues to spend years in solitary confinement, facing beatings, shackling, and threats to his life.

He noted that these violations come as part of a systematic policy targeting our Palestinian people and leadership, with the aim of ethnic cleansing, holding the occupation fully responsible for the safety of the detainees.

He demanded the immediate release of the most vulnerable categories at risk, including patients, the elderly, women, children, and administrative detainees, denouncing the attack carried out by the so-called Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, who stormed Barghouti's cell and threatened him with death, considering it a serious crime that amounts to attempted murder and necessitates urgent international intervention.

Khreishi concluded the letter by emphasizing that the fate of Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian detainees hinges on immediate international action, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfill their responsibilities and ensure the protection of the lives and dignity of our detainees, in accordance with international humanitarian law.