Israel kills 6 former Palestinian prisoners in Gaza in line with ‘revenge policy,’ Hamas says

Senior Hamas official Abdul-Karim Hanini says Israel has killed six Palestinians who had been freed from prison in an attack on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Hanini called it evidence of Israel’s continued “policy of revenge and systematic killing against those who resist against occupying regime forces."

“As we mourn with pride and honor our martyrs who ascended as a result of a treacherous Zionist assassination crime, we affirm that this crime will not undermine the resolve of our people, its prisoners, and its liberators to continue on the path of freedom,” Hanini said.

“All the arrogance of the occupation will not succeed in swaying us from our principles and our choice to confront this occupation until it is eliminated.”

The victims, the majority of them exiled from the occupied West Bank, lost their lives after warplanes hit tents sheltering the displaced in the town of Zawayda in central Gaza and the Mawasi area of western Khan Yunis.

Five of them were released in 2011 under a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel to free captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

The sixth was among those exiled from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank in 2002.

‘Torture and starvation’: Israeli forces detained 550 Palestinian women since Gaza genocide launched

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has released a statement on the latest situation of female Palestinians currently languishing behind bars in Israeli jails and detention centers.

New “shocking” testimonies from Palestinians have revealed the “systematic torture and abuse” against Gazans held in Israel’s prisons.

Testimonies document repeated beatings, threats, starvation, and isolation against female prisoners.

Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank have been kidnapped by Israel since October 7, 2023. Thousands more have been “forcibly disappeared” from the Gaza Strip.

Figures by the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) show more than 450 children and 50 women are among about 10,800 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

The number, which is the highest recorded since 2000, does not include detainees held in Israeli military camps.

Blood behind bars: How Israeli jails have turned into slaughter houses for Palestinians

Almost 70 Palestinians, many of them unidentified, have been tortured to death by the Israeli regime in its prisons since October 2023 amid the genocidal war on Gaza.

Israeli authorities earlier said they had begun transferring prisoners from Sde Teiman, a former military base in the Negev desert after rights groups demanded the closure of the site.

Dozens of Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023.

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