Palestine calls on Red Cross to act over conditions of prisoners in Israeli jails – Middle East Monitor

Palestine on Friday appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to step in and protect Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, warning that systematic abuse and neglect are endangering lives, Anadolu reports.

Ibrahim Khraishi, Palestine’s permanent observer to the UN in Geneva, in a letter to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, accused Israel of subjecting prisoners to torture, starvation, and prolonged solitary confinement, and singled out the deteriorating…