Hamas decries Israel's 'slow killing' of detainees as 7 hospitalized upon release
Hamas has slammed Israel’s policy of the "slow killing" of Palestinian abductees in its jails after seven prisoners were hospitalized immediately after being released.
On Saturday, Israel released 183 prisoners in return for three Israeli captives.
"The fact that seven prisoners were transferred to hospitals immediately after their release... reflects the systematic assaults and mistreatment of our prisoners by the Israeli prison authorities," Hamas said in a statement.
It said Israel “pursues the slow killing of prisoners inside the prisons.”
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club advocacy group and the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that seven of the freed abductees had been admitted to hospital in the West Bank.
"All the prisoners who were released today are in need of medical care... as a result of the brutality they were subjected" to in jail, said the advocacy group.
The group has long decried abuses of Palestinians in Israeli custody.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, “All the prisoners who were released today are in need of medical care, treatment, and examinations as a result of the brutality they were subjected to during the past months.”
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has said that the majority of Palestinian detainees freed from Israeli prisons showed severe health deterioration, with many exhibiting significant weight loss – clear evidence of deliberate starvation.
The rights group said that Israeli forces have deprived Palestinian detainees of medical treatment throughout their imprisonment.
"Israel has transformed its jails into institutionalized torture facilities” after it launched its brutal campaign of genocide in the Gaza Strip, said the rights group.
During the first 42-day phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that took effect on January 19, 33 Israeli captives are to be released in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian abductees.
Negotiations on a second phase began this week aimed at returning the remaining captives and agreeing on a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
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