The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front issued a statement on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which takes place on Monday April 17.
The statement stressed the need to internationalize the issue of prisoners, and to deliver messages about their suffering and the atrocious measures to which they are subjected.
In a statement issued Sunday, on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, which falls on Monday, the Front stressed that “guaranteeing the rights of prisoners, their families and their entitlements, as well as their national and humanitarian cause, should not be subject to blackmail and bargaining.”
The Palestinian government and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs called for more support for the steadfastness of the prisoners and care for their families, reiterating its call to the international community and human rights institutions to assume its responsibilities and to actively intervene to protect the prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, and to compel the Israeli occupation to abide by international laws and conventions, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, and to work hard to release the prisoners.
The Front added that Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is an occasion to unify all efforts and energies to support the steadfastness of our brave prisoners, and to affirm that the issue of prisoners will always remain at the forefront of our people’s national tasks until all prisoners and detainees are liberated from the occupation’s pastels.
The Front saluted our brave prisoners in the prisons of the occupation, renewing the pledge to the martyrs of the captive movement and all the martyrs of our people to continue the struggle until achieving the goals of our people in freedom, return, independence and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The Front indicated the necessity of perpetuating the memory of the martyrs of the prisoners movement, remembering the 232 prisoners who died in custody, and the approximately 4,500 Palestinian prisoners still in the occupation prisons, including 550 prisoners who suffer from diseases of various degrees and health conditions.
The Front called for considering the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day an occasion to escalate popular resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation, its policies and measures, and to confront all Israeli settlement plans and attempts to isolate and Judaize Jerusalem.
