Arab League calls for urgent international intervention to halt crime of enforced disappearance against Palestinian prisoners

Cairo:Arab League has underlined the importance of urgent international intervention to ramp up pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt...

Cairo: Arab League has underlined the importance of urgent international intervention to ramp up pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt the crime of enforced disappearance against the Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the Gaza Strip.

In a statement to mark the day of solidarity with prisoners and detainees in the Israeli prisons and secret detention centers, Arab League stressed that the international community must immediately expose the Israeli secret detention facilities, disclose the names of all detainees from the Palestinian enclave, account for their whereabouts and fate, as well as shoulder the full responsibility for their safety and integrity.

Arab League condemned, in strongest terms, the violations, crimes and brutal repression policies being conducted by Israel against prisoners and detainees in its secret detentions, emphasizing that such repressive policies are direct consequences of isolating the Palestinian people by the Israeli government, amid international silence.

Consequently, Arab League has called on the Arab and international media, along with Arab and international human rights organizations to expose the violations being committed by Israel and its inhumane practices that include starving and depriving the Palestinian detainees of water, in addition to torturing and sexually assaulting them.

The inhumane practices include medical crime, isolation and humiliation which unequivocally constitute a grave and flagrant violation of international laws and regulations, as well as all humanitarian considerations that call for treating prisoners and detainees in a manner that preserves their dignity and right to life, the statement pointed out.