The Director-General of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Amjad al-Najjar, said that the explicit calls by Israel’s extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to kill and torture Palestinian prisoners are not mere statements but rather a clear expression of an official policy adopted and implemented daily by the Israeli government inside its prisons.
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In a press statement, al-Najjar described what is happening inside Israeli prisons as a “real genocide war” being waged against Palestinian detainees, saying, “Human beings are being killed twice — once under torture, and once through international silence.”
He emphasized that these statements are part of a systematic incitement campaign that aligns with dangerous legislative efforts in the Knesset aimed at legalizing executions and stripping prisoners of their minimum legal and humanitarian protections.
Al-Najjar added that the current situation inside prisons represents a continuation of the broader acts of genocide being committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where detainees are subjected to starvation, deprivation, isolation, and torture to death — amid disturbing international silence and UN inaction.
He warned that such ongoing incitement would likely translate into new crimes against prisoners, holding the Israeli occupation fully responsible for their lives and safety.
Al-Najjar called on the international community, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross, to urgently establish an independent international investigation committee to put an end to the killings and atrocities taking place inside Israeli prisons, and to compel Israel to respect international humanitarian law and recognize prisoners as prisoners of war, not as criminals as portrayed by Ben-Gvir and other extremists.
He concluded, “Our message today from the Prisoners’ Club to the world is that saving the prisoners is no longer a humanitarian plea — it is a legal and moral duty in the face of one of the darkest chapters of modern-day crimes.”
