Ramallah: The head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS), Abdullah al-Zaghari, stated that the Israeli occupation authorities' decision to renew the state of emergency in prisons constitutes official cover for the continuation of the systematic extermination of Palestinian detainees.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, this is achieved by entrenching a system of policies and practices aimed at their slow and deliberate killing, and by keeping prisons open arenas for torture, starvation, medical negligence, deprivation, and the grave and systematic violation of human dignity.
In a statement issued by the PPS, al-Zaghari added that this decision signifies an expansion of the killing of detainees within prisons, given the structural and systematic failure of the international human rights system to fulfill its legal obligations and its inability to take deterrent measures that would compel the occupying power to cease its policies of brutality and collective punishment, including the serious crimes committed against detainees.