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<font size=3>PLO: 25 percent of Palestinians have been in Israeli
prisons<br>
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</a>DAIR - PLO <br>
Monday, 16 April 2007 <br><br>
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; <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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