The PNC mourns the Martyr "Baroud" and demands the implementation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners in Israeli prisons

The PNC mourns the Martyr "Baroud" and demands the implementation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners in Israeli prisons

The Palestinian National Council (PNC) mourned the captive prisoner Faris Baroud, who was martyred in Israeli prison because of the intentional medical negligence by the Israeli prisons authorities.

The Speaker of PNC Saleem Al-Za’anoon, in a press statement issued on 6 Wednesday said that the Israeli occupation authorities deliberately exercise medical negligence against the Palestinian prisoners and the lack of required health conditions and medical care, as stipulated in Articles 13, 30, 31, 32 of Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

PNC pointed out that because of Israel's non-compliance with the provisions of Geneva Convention and the Additional Protocol thereto, which applies to Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, last year five prisoners joined the convoy of martyrs, they are: (Yasir Al-Saradih, Mohammad Anbar, Aziz Awaisat, Mohammad Marshoud, and Mohammad Zaghloul Al-Khatib) The number of martyrs of the Palestinian Prisoners Movement reached to 218 prisoners in Israeli prisons.

PNC holds the Israeli occupation government responsible for the lives of all prisoners and detainees in its prisons. Mr. Al-Za’anoon called on the high signatories’ parties of the Third Geneva Convention to act urgently to abide by Israel's provisions, especially in light of the repression and persecution of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons.

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The PNC represents the supreme authority of the Palestinian people in all their places of residence. It sets PLO policies and plans to achieve the goals of the Palestinian people for self-determination, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and the return of refugees to their homes.After Al-Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, headed by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, decided to call for the convening of a Palestine National Council which met in Gaza in 1October 1948, which was the first Palestinian legislative authority to be established in the Arab state of Palestine. The Council then formed an all-Palestine government headed by Hilmi Abdel Baqi, who represented Palestine in the league of Arab States.The first national conference was held inJerusalem on 28May -2June 1964. This first National Council had 422 members, declared the establishment of the PlO, which represents the leadership of the Palestinian Arab people. The most important of which is the Palestinian National Charter, the Statutes of the Organization and others, and Mr. Ahmad Al-Shukairy was elected Chairman of the PlO.

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