Palestinians mark prisoner’s day with solidarity marches
Palestinians mark Prisoner’s Day on April 17 each year. Human rights organisations warn that Palestinian detainees are subject to some of the worst conditions in Israeli prisons.
They aren’t allowed visits from family, lawyers or doctors, and former detainees tell of torture, abuse and starvation by Israeli prison authorities.
Israeli prison system designed to crush Palestinian resilience
Held annually on April 17, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is a national day dedicated to the freedom of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and support for their rights.
This year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day – which is typically marked by rallies and other events – comes as Israel continues to crack down on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, amid its war on the Gaza Strip.
According to Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support and advocacy group, about 10,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of April 14.
Ubai Al-Aboudi, director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development, based in Ramallah, occupied West Bank, says the Israeli prison system aims to subjugate the Palestinian people.
Palestinian man, 20 years old, dies in Israeli prison
Musab Hassan Adili, a 20-year-old Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, died on Wednesday night in Israel’s Soroka Hospital, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reported.
Adili had been detained in March last year and sentenced to 13 months in Israeli prison. He was supposed to be released in a couple of days, his family said.
His death brings the number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli prisons to 64 since the Hamas-led October 7 attack in 2023.
