Two freed Palestinian prisoners: Egypt foiled the plan to displace the Palestinians
Two Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli occupation prisons confirmed that Egypt’s position and role in supporting the Palestinian people thwarted the plan to displace the Palestinian people from their land in the Gaza Strip, criticizing the way international human rights organizations deal with the Israeli occupation authorities’ violations against Palestinian prisoners and not giving them sufficient attention.
This came in statements made by the two Palestinian prisoners to the Middle East News Agency on the sidelines of a symposium organized by the Arab League this week about the suffering of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and the reality of deported editors, with the participation of the freed Palestinian prisoners and representatives of the Arab League member states.
The prisoner, Raed Nizar Abdel Jalil, from Nablus, in the northern West Bank, thanked Egypt for its major role in reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and releasing the Palestinian prisoners and taking care of them.
Nizar said that the war on Gaza that Israel declared had three goals: displacing the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip, occupying the entire area of the Gaza Strip, and releasing Israeli prisoners and detainees without compensation. Two of these goals were not achieved due to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people: liberating the prisoners and occupying the Gaza Strip, but the goal of displacing the Palestinian people, which is the main, most strategic, and most dangerous goal, was its failure thanks to the position of the Egyptian state. And its support for the steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land..
He added: Egypt was able to thwart the displacement because the Egyptian state and its leadership can take these positions because it possesses a strong national army capable of protecting the borders.
He pointed out that Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons suffer from extreme cold, hunger, fear and helplessness in the absence of the ability to make any decision.
He continued: “One of the cruelest things I experienced during the period of captivity was the martyrdom of the prisoner Muhammad Abu Zaid from Hebron in front of us, and we could not do anything for him, not even give him a piece of bread because his weight had decreased to 36 kilograms, due to the food ban; He was infected with escabius (scabies). Whose entire body gnawed and whose skin began to fall off, and the food they gave us was carefully calculated as the amount of calories it contained to represent the minimum level for just surviving life.".
He pointed out that the right-wing Israeli Minister of Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, brags about these practices, and brags that he does not give food to Palestinian prisoners or gives them dirty food, and the Israelis publish videos of attacks on Palestinian prisoners.
He added: Dogs are trained to attack prisoners, and there is a group of young prisoners who were sexually assaulted, and some of the prisoners are deliberately exposed, and they bring female soldiers or Israeli guards to insult the dignity of the prisoners, and they know that the Palestinian and Arab prisoner is the most dangerous thing to insult his honor and dignity.
He pointed out that there are prisoners between the ages of 12 and 18, and that the occupation forces are arresting younger children, and this is published and announced by Israel.
He criticized the international human rights organizations’ handling of the Palestinian prisoners’ issue, and said, “Many international human rights organizations suffer from double standards and ignore the violations committed by the Israeli occupation authorities".
He added: There are some international organizations that cover up the crimes of the occupation, and the major crimes of the Israelis address them, but they try to mitigate them and make them appear as if they are individual violations, while when an issue is raised in the Arab world, they try to portray it as a systematic process.
For his part, prisoner Rami Muhammad from Nablus in the West Bank, who has been imprisoned for 24 years, said that in the recent period, Palestinian prisoners have been living in the worst conditions and he does not have any decision in his life and every decision he makes is taken by the Israeli prisoner.
He added: The Palestinian prisoners were deprived of the most basic human rights, and he said, “We wished for death at every moment".
He thanked the Egyptian state’s leadership, government and people for their efforts to release them, and for embracing and caring for them, and said, “I do not consider myself deported in Egypt or any Arab country, but rather in my Arab homeland, the opposite of what happens to us if we were in a European country".
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