Prisoners & Detainees
Palestinian center urges international intervention against Israeli election exploitation of prisoners
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies called on the international community to intervene and halt the exploitation of Palestinian prisoners' suffering in Israeli detention facilities, Shehab Wire reported. The center accused Israeli government ministers of using prisoner conditions as campaign material for the upcoming Knesset elections.
The statement pointed to what the center characterized as the instrumentalization of captive Palestinians' plight for electoral purposes by hardline members of Israel's governing coalition. The appeal comes ahead of parliamentary polls in which prison policy and detainee conditions have become flashpoints in public debate.
