The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has urged the UN to take swift action after Palestinian authorities claimed that five more detainees from Gaza have been killed in Israeli prisons, Al Jazeera reports.
“The UN must send an international investigative mission to look into the grave crimes and violations that Palestinian prisoners and detainees endure in Israeli prisons and detention facilities,” it said in a statement.
The rights group said the latest deaths bring the total number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees killed in Israeli prisons since Oct 7, 2023, to at least 54. The number includes 34 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
“According to former detainees’ testimonies, the true number of victims could be more than twice as high,” Euro-Med Monitor said.
The group also slammed what it called inaction by the UN’s rapporteur on torture, Alice Gill Edwards, and called on the organisation’s Human Rights Council to fire the expert and appoint a new person.
