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SvennoJ on 17 February 2025
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Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison

The two Palestinian groups say “the brutal assault” on Palestinian prisoners is “a barbaric criminal behaviour that reflects the fascist and terrorist nature of” Israel.

In the joint statement, the groups called the attack a “miserable attempt” by Israel “to restore its shattered prestige”. They called on the world to expose “these inhuman crimes against the prisoners”, which “blatantly violate all international conventions and norms”.

The statement called on the international community to intervene to protect the “prisoners, stop criminal violations against them, document them and work to hold the criminal occupation leaders accountable”.

The statement came after Palestinian authorities said Israeli forces raided a section of Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and assaulted detainees. “Prisoners were beaten and sprayed with gas,” the Palestinian Prisoners Media Office said.

Palestinian prisoners subjected to ‘severe torture’ under Israeli detention: Monitor

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reports that the terrible health conditions in which Palestinians have been released from Israeli prisons indicate a pattern of torture and abuse until the very last moments.

“All prisoners and detainees were released under appalling conditions by the Israeli occupation forces, who also stormed their homes and locations designated to receive and celebrate their release. They attacked family gatherings, suppressing them with tear gas and bullets and injuring some people,” the Geneva-based organisation said.

Israeli violations “turned into a systematic policy of retaliation against all Palestinian prisoners and detainees” who were subjected to “severe torture, intentional starvation, and prolonged solitary confinement as part of punitive measures that ramped up brutally after the events in the Gaza Strip”, it added.