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Dear Friends,
While life goes on
as normal for many people all over the world, about 12,000 Palestinians are
suppressed in the Israeli prisons for no reason other than their continuous
attempt to demand freedom for their people.
The 12,000
Palestinians prisoners, who have residence within the territories belonging to
the Palestinian Authority, are paralleled by one million Americans in prison in
the United States and 3.5 million Chinese jailed in the People’s Republic of
China. Some of the Palestinian prisoners have spent thirty years behind bars. Among
them are 350 underage children, 180 women, and scores of seniors. Some of the
women have given birth inside jail and others have been forcefully separated
from their infants.
Scores of these
prisoners died as a result of medical negligence. Every one of these 12,000 people
is deprived of basic necessities. In
addition to being crowded around the clock, the detention centers are very hot
and suffocating in summer, and very cold and humid in winter. Foul smelling
toilets and bad odors suffocate prisoners.
All prisoners suffer from an intentional starvation policy. The crying
of babies, the moaning of patients and the tears of the oppressed would break
the heart of any prison visitor.
The Israeli government
violates International Law with regard to Palestinian rights and abdicates from
all responsibility to provide the basic requirements of life. It holds the
prisoners’ families and the Palestinian National Authority accountable for
providing prisoners with their basic necessities. Further, the Israelis intentionally
detain prisoners within the borders of Israel (outside Palestinian areas),
thus breaking article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. This gives them the
pretext to forbid the prisoner’s family from visiting him/her.
Our duty as fellow
human beings obliges us to break our silence in the face of such crimes, by
supporting our fellow freedom fighters, who only demand their right to freedom
and independence.
Should we close our eyes to their torture? Should we ignore their human rights?
We call upon you to show your support by taking action and launching an
effective political campaigns in every town and village to mobilize a prompt
global movement, to pressure the Israeli occupation authority to release these
prisoners and apply international law to each case.
The humanity of each of us is being tried, so let us save it by supporting
the persecuted Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails.
Let’s turn the human rights texts into an uprising against injustice… so
that these laws do not turn into a dead philosophy within the cold silence of
the international community.
The International
Committee for the Support of Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Please feel free to send it to all the people
you know and to as many persons as possible!!
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