Appeal to UN Secretary General to save lives of sick prisoners

The High Commission to follow up the detainees and ex-detainees’ affairs submitted an appeal to the United Nation, to its Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and to international committees and human rights organizations, to help save the lives of prisoners in Israeli prisons especially the sick. Sick prisoners are suffering from deliberate medical negligence and are subject to daily and continuous harassments by the Israeli forces violating international law through continued detention, harsh living conditions, daily attacks and harassments of prisoners, prohibiting visits, solitary confinement, and the cruel detention policy at whole that transgresses basic human values.

We, the High Commission to follow up the detainees and ex-detainees’ affairs, the political forces and human rights organizations, will inaugurate this year mass and popular events for reviving the Palestinian Prisoner’s day to help spread this humanitarian cry to the world conscience and to all the bodies and organizations concerned with human rights. We demand the following:

1- Condemning the Israeli violations against our people and stopping the turning of a blind eye away from the crimes of the occupation particularly against prisoners.

2- Providing international protection to prisoners against any daily brutal attacks and harassments inside Israeli prisons.

3- Reconsidering the role of the United Nations and forming an international commission of inquiry to investigate the situation in Israeli prisons.

4- Stripping the occupation from the legal immunity, holding it accountable for its crimes and imposing comprehensive boycott measures on it until it complies with the international law.

5- Urging the World Health Organization and humanitarian bodies to take total responsibility in granting access to medical and health committees for inspecting the detainees, victims of the deliberate medical negligence in the Israeli prisons, and force their immediate release.

6- Demanding immediate intervention for releasing the Legislative Council members who have been arrested despite the Parliamentary immunity.

7- Demanding immediate intervention for releasing veteran prisoners and the prisoners rearrested after the Shalit Prisoners Exchange.

We call upon you in our continuous national struggle towards asserting our inalienable rights including our right to return, self-determination and national independence in a sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital.