Zaghari: The occupation intensifies attempts to assassinate leader Barghouthi and continues its genocidal war against thousands of prisoners

SadaNews - Abdullah Zaghari, the head of the Prisoners' Club, said that the actions of the repression forces of the occupation prisons management, shooting rubber bullets at prisoner leader Marwan Barghouthi inside his cell, represent a highly dangerous escalation in attempts to assassinate him. This clearly reveals that the occupation has moved to more brutal levels in targeting national leadership among the prisoners, as part of its ongoing genocide against the prisoners, which is a direct extension of the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.

Zaghari added in a statement for the Prisoners' Club today, Tuesday, that leader Barghouthi, along with several other national prisoner leaders, has been subjected since the onset of the genocide to an organized campaign of torture, degradation, isolation, and repeated assaults, in a systematic attempt to physically and mentally eliminate them. This same policy also affects thousands of male and female prisoners, including children, women, the elderly, the sick, and the wounded, within a prison system that has turned into an open space for torture, slow killing, and organized crimes.

He emphasized that what Barghouthi is facing is not an isolated incident but a new link in a deliberate assassination policy implemented by the occupation's prison system against the leadership of the prisoners' movement, benefiting from international silence and the political immunity provided to the occupation by international powers, despite human rights organizations documenting dozens of crimes and violations that rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He pointed out that the occupation is trying, as it did in the Gaza Strip, to impose a normalization of scenes of torture, humiliation, and killing inside the prisons, so that its daily crimes against prisoners become familiar scenes that do not call for any serious international action.

Zaghari stressed that the rise of global popular and human rights movements, and the expansion of solidarity campaigns with leader Marwan Barghouthi and the Palestinian prisoners, confirm that the narrative of the occupation is collapsing in the face of the growing global awareness of the truth of its crimes. This leads it to further brutality and revenge, considering terrorism, violence, and genocide its main tools to silence every voice calling for freedom and justice.

He affirmed that what the Palestinian prisoners are experiencing today cannot be separated from the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people, as Israeli prisons have turned into sites of extermination, where crimes of torture, starvation, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and killings are committed, away from any effective international oversight, in a blatant challenge to all the rules of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.

He indicated that the Palestinian Prisoners' Club will continue, alongside human rights and national institutions, to pursue the occupation for its crimes, and to ramp up international efforts to isolate its colonial system and hold its leaders accountable, calling on the world's people and free forces to expand the circle of pressure and accountability, and not to be satisfied with statements of condemnation, but to engage in serious efforts to impose sanctions on the occupation and end the historical impunity that has enabled it to commit genocide against our people and continue its crimes against prisoners without any deterrent.