The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office condemned on Sunday the crime committed by the Israeli enemy against martyr Majdi Nour Abu Arra from the Tubas Governorate in the occupied West Bank. His fate was forcibly concealed by his detention for a year and a half before his death was acknowledged without any details being revealed.
In a press statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the office said: “The evidence confirms that the martyr’s family spent all that time seeking any information about his fate through the relevant authorities, without receiving any response from the Israeli enemy authorities. They were only informed of his death after the Israeli organization ‘HaMoked’ petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to inquire about his fate, in a clear case of enforced disappearance.”
The case of martyr Majdi Abu Arra is considered a manifestation of the policy of enforced disappearance, which the Israeli entity has escalated since October 7, 2023.
The office noted that the Zionist enemy continues to conceal the fate of an unknown number of Palestinian detainees, particularly from the Gaza Strip, and refuses to provide any information about them, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
It emphasized that the policy of enforced disappearance is not an isolated incident, but rather a systematic tool used by the Zionist entity within a broad framework of crimes and violations against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, aimed at tormenting their families and depriving them of knowing the fate of their loved ones. This necessitates urgent international action to stop this policy and hold those responsible accountable.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office called on the international community, the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and human rights and humanitarian organizations to take immediate action to uncover the fate of all missing persons and detainees whom the Israeli enemy continues to forcibly disappear, to release the bodies of the martyrs being held, and to open an independent international investigation into the crime of enforced disappearance as a war crime and a grave violation of international law.
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