ĭespite these calls, Israel has done little to protect the approximately 4,500 Palestinian detainees and prisoners held in Israeli facilities, including 700 detainees with pre-existing medical conditions. The letter was in support of an urgent appeal by the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Al-Haq, and emphasized that Israel arresting Palestinians and holding them in Israel violates international humanitarian law, including the prohibition against an occupying power transferring protected individuals outside of an occupied territory. In April, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), endorsed by 74 organizations, highlighting the need for an urgent intervention to safeguard Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons from COVID-19 exposure.
She urged governments and authorities to reduce the number of people in detention and explicitly called on governments to release individuals detained without sufficient legal basis. On March 25th, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for governments to “not forget those behind bars” and “act quickly to reduce the number of people in detention”.
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