The Arab Palestinian Prisoner Day celebration is based on the implementation of the resolution of the Damascus Summit in 2008 to be celebrated on the seventeenth of April of each year as an expression of Arab solidarity with the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation. Those prisoners are subjected to all severe forms of torture and methods of violating their dignity and human rights guaranteed by International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and all international charters and agreements related to prisoners that Israel (the occupying power) continues to violate.
On this occasion, the Secretariat General of the League of Arab States organized a symposium themed "Supporting the rights of prisoners in the face of Israeli violations and abuse" at the headquarters of the Secretariat General in Cairo on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, to celebrate the Arab Palestinian Prisoner Day as an Arab and international day.
General themes of the symposium:
1. Background on the prisoners and the Israeli violations.
This theme includes female prisoners, children, house confinement, the policy of administrative arrest, sick prisoners, violations, torture policies, and Israeli medical negligence against male and female prisoners in the prisons of the occupation.
2. Prisoners and international law
This theme includes the rights of prisoners in International Humanitarian Law in light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international responsibility for violating the Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in 1949, and the correct adaptation of the Palestinian prisoners' problem and how to solve it. Moreover, this theme includes the illegality of Zionist actions against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, the legal protection of prisoners in the Third Geneva Convention, and the mechanisms for protecting Palestinian prisoners within International Humanitarian Law.
3. Prison literature and living testimonies
This theme includes documents from prisoners' literature that demonstrate the savagery of the jailer and preserve the home history and hear the living testimonies of the liberated prisoners and their families.
الورقة المفاهيمية - ندوة 2022.pdf
A film about the reality of prisoners in prisons, produced by the Palestine Commission of Detainees Affairs, was displayed.
https://youtu.be/QIUnZlG4Pao
https://youtu.be/EKs9uJ8MN2I
https://youtu.be/G-XX1jVFb_s
https://youtu.be/_ZIEntIxlfI
Furthermore, Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories Sector in the Secretariat General issued a special issue of 'Palestine in a Month' magazine, which is issued monthly by the sector on the issues and conditions of prisoners. (download(Ar).pdf)
The symposium coincides with the celebration of the Glorious Land Day by the Palestinian people in all parts of the occupied Palestinian territory and the land of 48 in the Galilee, the Triangle, and the Negev in defense of the Arabism of the land and its identity and the Immortal Palestinian right to it and resistance to the plans and aggressions of the Israeli occupation authorities.
