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APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 8 May 2023. Palestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with prisones held in Israeli Jails in front of Red Cross Office in Gaza city
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 8 May 2023. Palestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with prisones held in Israeli Jails in front of Red Cross Office in Gaza city 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Representative of the Islamic Jihad Movement in the Prisoners Committee of the National Forces, Yasser Mezher 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) leader in the Democratic Front, Issam Abu Daqqa 0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Released prisoner, Ibrahim Mansour STORYLINE: Over the past five decades, Israel, the occupying power, has detained over 800,000 Palestinians, including children and women. Currently, Israel illegally detains 4,900, including 29 females and 170 children. Moreover, 967 Palestinians are currently detained under the Israeli illegal policy of administrative detention. The highest number of administrative detainees in the past 11 years,” it said. “Successive Israeli occupation governments have implemented discriminatory policies against Palestinian detainees. The current racist Israeli occupation government intensified these abhorrent policies. Approving a draft law authorizing the execution of Palestinian detainees, approving discriminatory legislation deporting Palestinian detainees from their land, and introducing a draft law depriving detainees of medical treatment are only samples of such discriminatory policies,” added the Foreign Ministry. “The Israeli occupation detention system is a main part of its collection of colonial tools to intimidate and persecute the Palestinian people to serve different objectives including enabling forcible transfer, mass displacement, land confiscation, and annexation. The Israeli judicial system is part of the colonial regime that legitimizes discrimination, torture, and persecution of the Palestinian people.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the international community to uphold their legal responsibilities towards Palestinian detainees by endin
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