Israel releases names of 69 Gaza detainees amid ongoing enforced disappearances

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club released on Wednesday a list of 69 Palestinian detainees from Gaza whose places of detention have been confirmed by Israeli occupation authorities. However, many others remain unaccounted for amid the ongoing practice of enforced disappearance carried out by the occupation against Palestinians from Gaza.

The commission stated that the available information indicates that the detainees are being held in various Israeli prisons and military camps.

No information has been provided regarding another group of detainees. A re-examination will be conducted in an attempt to determine their fate one month after the last response, in which the Israeli occupation army claimed it had no information about them.

According to the commission, the only official data available on the number of detainees from Gaza comes from the Israel Prison Service (IPS), which confirmed in early January that it was holding 1,886 Palestinians classified as “unlawful combatants”, including women and children.

However, estimates suggest that the number of detainees from Gaza reaches thousands, given the large-scale arrest campaigns carried out by Israeli forces as part of their genocidal war on the Strip. These arrests have also been accompanied by systematic torture, which has led to the death of dozens inside detention centres.

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