Urge Israel & demands to immediate disclosure of the secret detention camps and issue the names and conditions of detainees from the Gaza Strip
Identical letters were sent to the special rapporteurs of the United Nations and international bodies with jurisdiction regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity against prisoners and detainees.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemns in the strongest terms the policy of mass arbitrary detention followed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, and considers it an additional war crime and an integral part of the system of persecution and oppression it practices to perpetuate its colonial regime in Palestine, especially since the court system It is one of the arms of the occupation that contributes to consolidating the colonial occupation of the Palestinian land.
It also considers with great seriousness what a large number of children, women and men who were forcibly kidnapped from the Gaza Strip during the past months are exposed to as a result of the systematic torture policy that Israel uses against them, including sexual violence, rape, starvation and deprivation of medical care, as the continuing brutal occupation policies have reached Unprecedented levels, which led to the death of dozens of Palestinian prisoners under torture in illegal Israeli detention centers. The Ministry expresses its fear that this fate is facing and threatening thousands of those who were recently forcibly kidnapped in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, without determining their fate. This has been confirmed by numerous reports and press investigations from Israeli and international media, in addition to the testimonies of dozens of Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip who were recently released, and the testimonies of some Israelis working in secret detention centers that show the ugliness of the crime to which detainees from the Gaza Strip are exposed inside secret detention camps in the desert. Negev, according to a recently published CNN report.
The Ministry calls for a transparent international investigation through existing international committees and the formation of mechanisms to ensure that Israel, the occupying power, is held accountable for its violations and crimes, as they are war crimes and crimes against humanity punishable by the founding Rome Statute. It also calls on the International Red Cross to move quickly to visit the secret detention centres and learn about the conditions of those kidnapped from the Gaza Strip. Gaza, all of this is in preparation for submitting reports to the competent international courts.
Source: Palestine Embassy, Islamabad.