On Monday, families of Palestinian prisoners held a sit-in outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Gaza City to express their solidarity with their sons detained in Israeli prisons.
During the sit-in, the families demanded that the ICRC reveal the fate of the prisoners and clarify their conditions in Israeli detention centers, given the lack of transparency surrounding the issue.
The families of the prisoners live in a state of constant anxiety due to limited communication and the lack of accurate official information. The long waiting periods without answers exacerbate the humanitarian and legal concerns surrounding the fate of their loved ones.
For her part, Amani al-Naouq, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that “the ICRC’s priority at the moment is monitoring the situation of Palestinian detainees and working to reach them.”
These popular movements come at a time when data published by Palestinian prisoners’ organizations indicates that there are 1,460 prisoners, according to Israel’s announcement as part of the ceasefire agreement on Gaza. Of these, 1,220 are detainees, the majority of whom are from the Gaza Strip, and whom the Israeli Prison Service classifies as “unlawful combatants.”
