The increase in the numbers of martyrs of prisoners to 220, with the martyrdom of the prisoner Taqatqa

Ramallah | Hurryyat: The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” confirmed that the number of martyrs of the prisoners national movement in the prisons of the Israeli occupation since 1967 rose to 220 today, Tuesday, after the martyrdom of the prisoner Nassar Majed Omar Taqatqa from the town of Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem, isolated in the prison of Nitzan Ramla.

Hurryyat indicated that Taqatqa, 31, was arrested on June 19, 2019 and did not suffer from any health problems. He was transferred to the Jalameh detention center and was interrogated. He was subjected to various forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, after that he was transferred to solitary confinement and was martyred.

Hurryyat, mourns the prisoner martyr Nassar Taqatqa, and extends condolences to his family, the prisoners’ movement, and our people, and holds the Israeli government and the Prisons Authority full responsibility for this crime.

Hurryyat, calls on the international community and world public opinion to stand for the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the prisons of the occupation, as they are prisoners, who have struggled for the freedom and independence of their people, and condemns the Israeli narrative of stigmatizing their struggle with terrorism, which based on it the occupation government justifies their ongoing daily crimes against the prisoners.