Prisoners Authority and Palestinian Prisoners Club: Prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi from Gaza died as a result of torture in Sde Teiman prison | News

The Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club confirmed this evening, Thursday, the martyrdom of prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi (42 years old) from the Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gaza, who was arrested during the recent storming of Al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of being subjected to torture inside the notorious Israeli Sde Teiman camp.

She said that she had obtained confirmed information indicating that Al-Sarsawi was martyred 4 months ago, noting that he was one of dozens who were martyred in the occupation's prisons and camps, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.

The Commission and the Club explained in a joint statement that the martyr prisoner Al-Sarsawi works as an officer in the police force, and was arrested with dozens of others from inside Al-Shifa Hospital, and their fate or places of detention were not revealed at the time, which the two Commissions classified as crimes of enforced disappearance.

The Commission and the Club stated that with the martyrdom of the martyr prisoner Sarsawi, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 has risen to 257, including 20 prisoners who were martyred since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, and their identities were announced, in addition to dozens of detainees in Gaza who were martyred, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.

The Commission and the Club called on international community institutions to take immediate action to stop what they described as the crime of enforced disappearance and torture crimes, which they said were escalating in an unprecedented manner in terms of intensity inside the occupation’s prisons and camps.

They also demanded that prisoners, both male and female, not be left as prey to the occupation prison administration and its systematic policy, which today has more support than ever before and a political decision from the settlers’ government, to kill them, as prisoners face the harshest and most severe stages as a result of the crimes of torture and humiliation.

The Commission and the Club called for the acceleration of “the formation of a UN investigation committee with a comprehensive mandate to investigate all crimes committed by the occupation against male and female prisoners, and for the human rights system to emerge from its state of inability to stop the war of extermination and prisoner aggression, which constitutes another aspect of it.”