In the International Human Rights Day \ The Commission of Detainees: occupation authorities arrest 5000 Palestinians

 The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that occupation authorities still holding 5000 Palestinians in Israeli jails including 200 minors and 38 women.

This came in a statement in the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, where the commission confirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities violate the provisions of protection guaranteed by international law for prisoners through arresting tens of Palestinians on a daily basis, accompanied by abusive measures using excessive force and extrajudicial execution.

In addition, Israeli authorities continue to arrest former members of Legislative Council, defenders of human rights and journalists on charges of posting on Facebook, where women and minors are not excluded.

The commission also stated that the prisons' administration have implemented suppressive policies aiming at destroying Palestinian detainees and degrading their dignity. This was implemented through interrogation in which detainees are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological torture.

Prisons' administration practices abusive and suppressive measures against detainees after transferring them to prison, these practices are represented in isolation, imposing fines, intensive beating, destroying detainees' belongings, depriving them of family visits, depriving them of medical care and treatment using the policy of medical negligence and transporting them in military vehicles made of iron in which they do not feel comfortable, especially sick detainees.

The commission confirmed the existence of flagrant violations of International Law provisions practiced by Israeli authorities against Palestinian detainees, ignoring the guarantees of fair trial provided by International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, especially the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners 1955, and other declarations and international agreements that guarantee the rights of detainees.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the International Community to intervene and fulfill its legal and ethical commitments towards Palestinians, and to take actual procedures to hold the occupation authorities accountable for the daily crimes committed against our people. It also called on activating solidarity campaigns to support Palestinians and their cause.