GAZA (Anadolu) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged a rally on Monday to demand legal protection to detainees held by the Zionist regime.
“Freedom to Detainees” and “No to Administrative Detention” were among banners waved by protesters during the rally held outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City.
“The Palestinian resistance will not stand hand-tied to racist Israeli policies,” Zaki Dababesh, coordinator of the Detainees Committee, which organized the protest, said.
He appealed to the international community to intervene “to halt Israeli violations against detainees”.
Taghreed Abu Jameh, a lawyer for Addameer Foundation for Human Rights, said detainees are subject to various violations, citing solitary confinement and denying them family visits, as examples of the Zionist regime’s daily violations.
“The UN must take a clear stance on the Israeli war crimes against detainees,” she told the rally.
According to Palestinian human rights organizations, the occupying reigme holds about 4,700 Palestinian prisoners inside its jails, including 700 so-called administrative detainees.
The health condition of two Palestinian prisoners in the Zionist regime’s jails is critical after a weeks-long hunger strike in protest against the regime’s ‘administrative detention’.
Ra’ed Rayyan, 27, who is from the village of Bayt Duqu near the occupied Al-Quds, has been on hunger strike for 102 days, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported on Sunday. Rayyan, currently held at a clinic in the notorious Ramla Prison, is said to be suffering from serious health complications.
The other prisoner, Khalil Awawdeh, 40, from a town around the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil, has been on hunger strike for more than two weeks. Last month, Awawdeh broke a 111-day fast after being reassured by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) that his detention will not be renewed. But he resumed the hunger strike a week later after the Zionist authorities reneged on their promise. He was reported to be suffering from headaches, fatigue, blurry vision, joint pain, irregular heartbeat, frequent vomiting and significant loss of weight.