[Ppnews] 25 percent of Palestinians have been in Israeli prisons

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PLO: 25 percent of Palestinians have been in Israeli prisons
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DAIR - PLO
Monday, 16 April 2007

The thirty-third anniversary comes while the rest of the Palestinians 
outside prisons are besieged by the Apartheid Segregation Wall, 
Jewish settlements, and Israeli checkpoints;

11,000 Palestinian prisoners are detained in the Israeli Jails, many 
of whom are sentenced to more than 30 years and are being subjected 
to harsh  and repressive conditions within central prisons, detention 
centers  and military camps.

Since 1967, about 25 percent of the Palestinians living in the 
occupied Palestinian territories have been arrested at one time or 
another. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners' houses as well as their 
relatives' have been demolished as a punishment against them. 
Thousands of Palestinian families have been banned from visiting 
their loved ones in the Israeli jails. Tens of prisoners were also 
deported from the WB toGaza Strip or to outside the Palestinian territories.

Among the prisoners that are still arrested in the Israeli Jails, 398 
Palestinian children and 110 Palestinian woman. 850 of the detainees 
are kept in administrative detentions without trials, 64 of the lot 
are sentenced to more 20 years while 15 prisoners are held in 
isolation for more than 5 years, and 187 Palestinians prisoners have 
died in Israeli jails; The forty one members of the PLC that were 
kidnapped and jailed by the Israeli occupation are still imprisoned 
which is keeping the Palestinian Legislative Council almost paralyzed.

Some 1,000 Palestinian inmates are reported to be suffering from 
serious diseases and sickness, 150 of whom suffer from chronic 
diseases. Only 30 of the sick prisoners made it to a hospital for 
treatment. News coming from inside the jails confirm that some 1000 
Palestinian have been used as lab rats by Israeli physicians and 
medical authorities that conducted medical experiments on some of them.

DAIR calls on the UN, International Red Crescent, and all 
humanitarian organizations to work towards ensuring the protection of 
Palestinian prisoners, and to bring to an end the policy of political 
detention, and the terror it entails. Israeli authorities must abide 
by the Fourth Geneva Convention, international standards and laws 
regarding the Palestinian prisoners, and to respect treaties and 
agreements to which it is a signatory. The systematic use of 
administrative detention against Palestinian detainees as a form of 
collective punishment is illegal under the international law and must 
come to an end.

Any proposed political solution that doesn't include the Palestinian 
prisoners won't bring real results; the case of the Palestinian 
Prisoners will always be among the Palestinian People prominent issues.


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