rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/freedom-for-palestinian-political-prisoners?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-freedom-for-palestinian-political-prisoners' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Palestinian Youth Movement https://actionnetwork.org/groups/palestinian-youth-movement-2 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/436/859/normal/52908.jpg While Israel has waged a genocide on Gaza - a parallel escalation has unfolded in the West Bank through violent laws, courts, and bureaucracies designed to make life unlivable. Amongst the most severe policies has been a brutal escalation of violence against Palestinian prisoners. As Israel moves forward in legalizing the execution of political prisoners, it is clear that Israel not only uses prisons as an instrument of control to instill fear in the collective Palestinian psyche— Israel is turning prisons into specialized death camps. Since October 2023, Israel has arrested over 18,000 men, women, and children from the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian children–as young as the age of 12– and adults alike are interrogated for up to 90 days, denied access to lawyers, routinely subjected to physical, sexual and verbal torture, starvation, and denial of medical treatment, as well as other cruel, degrading and inhumane forms of abuse, deprivation, and detention. Over the past two years alone, these conditions have caused the deaths of more than 75 Palestinians in Israeli prisons. These patterns of torture, abuse and strategic killings are not isolated. They’re part of Israel’s broader attempt to completely erase Palestinians. Israel is executing a genocide against Palestinian Prisoners, deliberately shielded from the international community and allowed to persist without accountability. As the largest financial supporter of the Israeli military, and with an undetermined number of American citizens remaining in Israeli custody, the U.S. must take action. Call on Congress to demand: Independent investigation & disclosure of the identities and conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners Immediate end to all forms of torture Immediate access to legal representation, family visits, health care, and adequate access to water, food and hygiene Restoration of all rights achieved by the Political Prisoners movement Accountability and Sanctions against all perpetrators of war crimes against Palestinian political prisoners Freedom for all Palestinian Political Prisoners https://actionnetwork.org/letters/freedom-for-palestinian-political-prisoners