Na'im asks human rights organizations to pressure the Israeli government to stop random kidnapping of Palestinians

[ 23/09/2007 - 11:20 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Dr. Basem Na'im, the minister of detainees and ex-detainees affairs in the caretaker government, has called on the international human rights organizations to pressure the Israeli occupation government (IOG) to stop its policy of random detention against the Palestinian people, describing it as a mass punishment policy.

Na'im explained that the Israeli arbitrary kidnapping of Palestinians (inaccurately referred to in the media as "arrests" as it has no jurisdiction over Palestinians) are practiced in order to exercise pressure on the Palestinian people not to support the Palestinian resistance and to gain new collaborators with the Israeli intelligence in order to expose the places of rocket firing and Palestinian resistance fighters.

The minister stated that the IOF troops kidnapped more than 70 Palestinian citizens during its recent military operation in the Ein Beit Al-Ma refugee camp in Nablus, pointing out that the IOF troops subjected the Palestinian detainees to field interrogations and released a number of them but rounded up about 40 of them after chaining them.

The minister added that the IOF troops also kidnapped more than 20 Palestinians during its incursion into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip and took them to unknown locations, in addition to the arrest of a number of Palestinians in the Karam Abu Salem area to the east of Rafah, south of the Strip, after repeated incursions into area, pointing out that the number of Palestinians in Israeli jails has amounted to more than 11,500 prisoners so far.

The minister also revealed the extreme medical negligence inside Israeli jails, where the number of imprisoned patients rose to become more than 1,250 Palestinian patients, pointing out that the Israeli Ramla prison hospital is no more a hospital but turned into a slaughterhouse, where more than 35 patients suffer from serious diseases without suitable medical care.

He appealed to the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres to send specialized committees to expose the Israeli violations practiced against the imprisoned Palestinian patients, to provide them with urgent treatment, and to work on releasing them to complete their treatment abroad or transfer them to receive medical care in appropriate hospitals.

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