Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared: The International Committee of the Red Cross received a list including more than 8,000 prisoners, among them 828 prisoners from the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared:

▪The International Committee of the Red Cross received a list including more than 8,000 prisoners, among them 828 prisoners from the Gaza Strip.

▪Red Cross calls showed that the families of 127 prisoners in Gaza were unaware that their sons were still alive.

▪The shocking data prove the systematic crime of enforced disappearance, which aims to torture civilians and their families within the Israeli policy of collective punishment.

▪Hundreds of families think that the Israeli occupation army killed their sons or that they are still under the rubble, while they are being held secretly inside prisons.

▪The list handed to the Red Cross is incomplete, and the center’s documented estimates indicate that between 2,500 and 3,000 people have been subjected to enforced disappearance.

▪Secret detention and withholding the fate of detainees violate international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, in addition to the inherent right of families to know the fate of their relatives.

▪The continued blackout, the absence of human rights oversight, and the prevention of visits are turning Israeli prisons into secret detention and psychological torture centers.

▪The occupation authorities bear full responsibility for the lives of the detainees, and international intervention is required to reveal their lists since 7 October 2023.

▪The international community and the United Nations are calling for obliging the occupation to allow the immediate visitation of all prisons and to enable detainees to communicate with their families.