Following revelations in Israeli media, groups fear for the life of Gazans detained in Israel

RAMALLAH: The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) today urged international human rights organizations to pressure the Israeli occupation government to reveal the fate of Gaza detainees held in Israel in light of a report in the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz today talking about the death of several Gaza detainees held in Sde Teman camp in the Beersheba area in the south of Israel after October 7 without knowing their exact number and the circumstances of their death. The Commission and the PPS said that 73 days after the start of the aggression and genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to hide any information about the prisoners from Gaza, which constitutes a blatant violation of international law, and refuse to disclose any information regarding their fate, expressing fear that some of them may have been killed. They said that the occupation forces have published pictures about the arrest of hundreds of Gazans who were stripped naked during the ground invasion and that despite demands to the International Committee of the Red Cross and to several international human rights bodies to pressure the occupation authorities to disclose the fate of the Gaza detainees, these demands were not answered. The occupation authorities still refuse to reveal the identity of one of the Gazans who was killed in the Anatot camp in November along with Majed Zaqul, who was killed in Ofer prison, they said. The Commission and the PPS said there are female prisoners from Gaza in Damon prison, including elderly women and children, while men are held in several detention centers and camps in Israel such as the Anatot and Sde Teman. Israel declared at the end of November that 260 of the Gaza detainees were classified as 'unlawful combatants' arrested after October 7. The Palestinian organizations said that several testimonies obtained from prisoners who were released, specifically from Ofer Prison, indicated that horrific torture was carried out by the occupat ion authorities against the Gaza detainees, noting that two days ago the occupation forces arrested a female resident of the town of Hawara simply because she had an ID card from Gaza while residing in the West Bank even though she is suffering from cancer, and was taken to and held in Anatot camp. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA