Head of Detainees Commission calls for intervention to stop Israel’s ‘unprecedented’ crimes against Palestinian detainees

RAMALLAH: Head of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, Qadura Fares, called on the international community to urgently intervene to stop the unprecedented crimes committed against Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, which have been ongoing for about 10 months. In light of the new rape crime committed against a Palestinian detainee by a group of prison guards in the "Sde Teiman" Israeli detention camp, Fares called for exerting the most severe pressure to curb and deter the occupying state. In a press statement issued today, Fares called for forming an urgent UN investigation committee, with a comprehensive and binding mandate, to address the horrific crimes to which detainees are exposed in general, and in the Sde Teiman camp in particular. He affirmed that this prison has been the most prominent place for torture and rape crimes. Fares stressed that the said camp represents the entire occupation system, adding that there are many testimonies documented by specialized institutions that i nclude sexual assaults and crimes in other prisons. 'The farce that the occupation military police came up with, and their detention of several soldiers aim to mislead the world public opinion,' he said. Fares affirmed that investigating a single rape case and ignoring thousands of other crimes aim to create misleading impressions that Israel is a state of law. 'If it were a state of law, the military police should have arrested Israel's Minister of War, Yoav Gallant, and the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has been a symbol of incitement to kill and execute detainees over the past years,' he said. Fares reiterated that Israel's crimes against detainees no longer have any conceivable limits, and they constitute a facet of the ongoing genocide. "Every day, as we witness the massacres against our people in Gaza, we hear horrific and harsh testimonies from legal teams and detainees who are released," Fares revealed. Fares also renewed his call for the International Criminal Co urt (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against the leaders of the occupation, considering that the continued hesitation in implementing this falls within the green light that has been given to Israel over decades to continue its crimes and carry out more erasure operations against the Palestinian people, which today are represented in the highest form through genocide. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA