Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights condemned the decision of the Israeli Minister of National Security (Itamar Ben Gvir) to reduce visits to prisoners to once every two months instead of one visit per month, starting next Sunday, in a manner that conflicts with Israeli and international laws and regulations, in addition to… A list of steps that Ben Gvir intends to take against the Palestinian prisoners.

Among the measures that Ben Gvir wants to pass are reducing the period of walking in the prison courtyards, stopping the separation of organizations in prison rooms, reducing the number of television channels, preventing prisoners from cooking for themselves, as well as abolishing the institution of the prisoners’ representative before the prison administration, and reducing the number of deputy speakers. In the name of the prisoners, reduce meat meals, sweets, and products sold in the canteen.

Addameer stressed that “the measures of the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir are considered a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, especially the provisions of Article 116, which stipulates that: (Every detained person is allowed to receive his visitors, especially his relatives, at intervals and as frequently as possible), and it also violates the model rules.” Minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners, approved by the United Nations.

Addameer announced its full support and solidarity with all prisoners and detainees in their battle against Ben Gvir’s measures, and called on Palestinian society from all political spectrums to unite behind the issue of the detainees in a way that ensures concerted and unified Palestinian efforts to support them.

She called on the international community, represented by its institutions, organizations, judicial bodies, and United Nations bodies, to assume their legal and moral responsibilities, to fulfill their obligations to protect the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli occupation prisons.

Source: Maan News Agency