Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
The Israeli occupation authorities arrested him in the prime of his youth, when he was no more than 23 years old, while the long years of detention and practices of oppression and deprivation at the hands of his jailers did not suffer from his determination and steadfastness, as is the case for all Palestinian prisoners who are waiting for moments of freedom and salvation from the cells of the occupation.
My brother Rushdi Saleh Abu Mokh embraced freedom today after 35 years of imprisonment in the occupation prisons, words he spoke to SANA reporter Ahmed Abu Mokh, the brother of the prisoner Rushdie, who is 60 years old, to which Hamdan Abu Makh, the cousin of the released prisoner, added: “The long years that Rushdie spent Inside the occupation prisons, I made him an example to be emulated in defiance and steadfastness in the face of the occupier, and we all hope that all prisoners will be liberated, ”indicating that the wide participation in receiving the prisoner Rushdie confirms that the issue of prisoners is in the heart and conscience of every Palestinian and a free person.
A member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Abu Al-Saud, who spent 10 years with the freed prisoner Abu Makh in the detention camps of the occupation, explained that the prisoners are waging a battle of steadfastness and a great sacrifice, and that the freed prisoner Rushdie has a high spirit of struggle and patriotism that made him defy the occupation and its criminal practices, raising the slogan of Palestine in the hearts of all The free men and that the dawn of freedom is coming for all the prisoners, no matter how dark the occupation cells may be.
Abu Al-Saud affirmed that the occupation is committing grave violations against about 4,600 Palestinian prisoners who live in harsh detention conditions in its detention, especially children, women and the elderly who suffer from physical torture, prevention of visits and a policy of deliberate medical negligence, especially in light of the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
Head of the Studies and Documentation Unit at the Prisoners' Affairs Authority, Abdel Nasser Farawana, in turn indicated that the freed prisoner Rushdie wrote a legendary epic of steadfastness, pointing out that his liberation from the cells of the occupation confirms that the prisoners are armed with determination to persevere and challenge and that their chains must be broken in the coming days, indicating at the same time that tens Among the prisoners who have been detained for decades, at the forefront of which is Karim Younis, who has been detained for 38 years.
In turn, the head of the Hussam Prisoners and Editors Association, Mowafak Hamid, stated that the policy of deliberate medical negligence pursued by the occupation forces against Palestinian prisoners inside his detention centers has caused 400 prisoners of war to be infected with the Coronavirus, and that the number is expected to increase in light of the international community's neglect of the extremely difficult health conditions of prisoners.
Hamid stressed that the occupation escalates its attacks against the prisoners and continues the policy of solitary confinement against them and deprives their families from visiting them, in addition to physical and psychological torture in a blatant violation of international conventions and norms, especially the Geneva Conventions, warning of the seriousness of the health condition of the prisoner Imad Abdul Aziz Abdullah Al-Batran, 47 years old. He's been fighting the empty stomach battle for 45 days.
About 4,600 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons face harsh conditions of detention, as 1,800 of them suffer from multiple diseases due to the spread of epidemics and germs, among them about 700 prisoners need urgent treatment, especially cases of cancer, kidney failure and paraplegia.