[Pnews] PNGO& the PHROC Condemn Israeli Occupying Forces for the Torturing and Brutally Injuring Samer al Arbeed

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  PNGO& the PHROC Condemn Israeli Occupying Forces for the Torturing and
  Brutally Injuring Samer al Arbeed

October 1, 2019

The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network and Palestinian 
Human Rights Council hold the occupying state of Israel in full 
responsibility for torturing and critically injuring of detained Samer 
al Arbeed who was injured during both detention and interrogation.

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019, Israeli occupation forces detained 
Samer al Arbeed. 44 years old, in front his workplace in Ramallah. His 
wife alongside other eyewitnesses witnessed Samer being brutally beaten. 
He was then taken to al-Mascobiyya interrogation center in Jerusalem 
tortured again and brutally injured during interrogation and issued an 
order that bans him from meeting his lawyer.

The following day Samer al-Arbeed had a court session without his 
lawyer, he is in a very critical health situation due to torture and ill 
treatment during his arrest and interrogations. According to his lawyer, 
he was unconscious, has several broken ribs, bruises all over his body 
in addition to suffering severe kidney failure.

According to reports by Palestinian Human Rights Organizations 470 
Palestinians were detained by the Israeli occupying forces during the 
month of August, 2019. While Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights 
Association reports that in the month of September the number of 
detained Palestinians increased reaching over 500 detained by the 
Israeli occupying forces.

The prohibition against torture in international conventions and 
agreements was unequivocal in its interpretation. The Geneva Conventions 
of 1949, as well as Protocol I and II of 1977, include a number of 
articles that strictly prohibit cruel treatment and outrages upon human 
dignity. In addition, torture is prohibited under the Convention against 
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 
which was adopted in 1948 and entered into force in 1978. The Convention 
against Torture states that no “*exceptional circumstances whatsoever, 
whether a state of war or a threat of war*” may be invoked as a 
justification of torture, thus establishing an 
internationally-recognized peremptory norm against torture even in 
compelling circumstances relating to counter terrorism. Furthermore, 
according to the Rome Statute, Articles 8, 7, torture amounts to a war 
crime and when systematic and wide-spread to a crime against humanity. 
Also, Article 55 of the Rome Statues prohibits in specific torture and 
ill-treatment of prisoners during investigation.

It is important to note that torture in Israeli prisons is a common and 
systematic method reflecting Israeli occupying illegal policies, 
reaching crimes against humanity. Reports indicate that 221 Palestinian 
detainees had died in Israeli prisons since 1967, including 73 died as a 
result of torture.

Palestinian NGO Network and the Palestinian Human Rights Council call 
upon the international community to:

·         Call upon member states, the International Committee of the 
Red Cross and UN specialized committees to take serious measures to 
pressure the occupying state of Israel to release Samer al Arbeed and 
insure he gets full health treatment and stop the ongoing crime of 
torture against him.

·         Call upon the International Committee of the Red Cross to open 
an immediate investigation, and to assign a medical committee to 
investigate the torturing of Samer al Arbeed.

  * Call upon the UN Secretary General and the rest of the United
    Nations committees and agencies to take all the required and
    available procedures and steps to end the Israeli practice of
    torture and ill-treatment in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
    Additionally, to act immediately in actual attempts to hold the
    Israeli occupation authorities accountable for their crimes.

·         Call upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva 
Convention to hold perpetrators of torture accountable as described in 
Article 146 and 147.

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