Doha - Saba:
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on all humanitarian and human rights organizations on Thursday to assume their responsibilities and take urgent action to pressure the Zionist enemy to halt its crimes against Palestinian prisoners.
The movement said in a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba): "The martyrdom of prisoner Samir Muhammad Yusuf al-Rifai (53 years old) from the town of Rummana in Jenin Governorate, days after his arrest, reveals the Nazi crimes our prisoners are subjected to in the prisons of the Zionist enemy, which are shameful to humanity."
It added: "As we mourn the martyr of the prisoner movement, martyr Samir al-Rifai, we affirm that the torture and abuse our prisoners are subjected to is a full-fledged war crime, violating all international and humanitarian conventions and embodying the extremist policy of the occupation government to kill prisoners through slow execution."
She continued: "We warn against the continuation of these violations against prisoners, and we affirm that our people and our resistance remain committed to our free prisoners, whose will won't be broken by the brutality of the Zionist enemy, and whose certainty that their freedom is imminent and inevitable will not be shaken."
Hamas called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to escalate their resistance and confrontation with the Zionist enemy and its settler gangs at all points of contact and support in support of the prisoners and in defense of the holy sites, the people, and their just rights.