Al-Qassam Website - The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas said Palestinian prisoners in the fascist occupation’s jails were facing inhumane conditions, systematic abuse, and torture, calling on the world to act immediately to support them and end their suffering.

In a press statement issued Monday, Hamas confirmed that what the Hebrew media published of scenes showing the brutal abuse against prisoners in the criminal Zionist enemy’s prisons "represented one of the most abhorrent displays of arrogance and a blatant challenge to humanity and to all international laws and conventions". Prisoners were not only facing “violations,” but a full-fledged humanitarian crime was being committed inside these prisons.

The movement condemned the international silence toward the brutal practices and inhumane conditions to which its heroic prisoners were subjected, as occupation authorities, officials, and journalists bragged about such practices. "More than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners are languishing in the occupation jails", Hamas affirmed, "including thousands who are held under the notorious administrative detention policy without charge or trial, in a stark violation of the most basic standards of justice".

The statement reiterated that prisoners were subjected to policies of physical and psychological repression, deliberate medical neglect, and denial of family visits, alongside measures of restriction and starvation, all of which threatened their lives and health and deepened their daily suffering.

Hamas called on the international community, the United Nations, its agencies, and all relevant international human rights and humanitarian groups to end the state of silence regarding the prisoners’ issue and to act to stop these brutal crimes, to hold the fascist occupation leaders accountable, to compel the occupation to respect the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law, and to enable international bodies to visit prisons and inspect prisoners’ conditions without restrictions.

The movement urged Arab, Islamic, and international bodies and groups to organise broad solidarity campaigns for the cause of prisoners in the occupation prisons, to exert pressure on all parties to demand their release and end their humanitarian suffering, and to continually remind the world that the prisoners were not numbers, but human beings with rights, lives, and dignity.