July 15, 2026

The Head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Minister Raed Abu Al-Humus, called on Wednesday morning for urgent regional, European, and international action to protect the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been subjected to a series of brutal assaults aimed at eliminating and assassinating him. The latest attack involved prison forces storming his cell, assaulting him, and firing rubber bullets at his body.

Abu Al-Hommus stated: "Brother and leader Abu Al-Qassam is a national and international symbol. Targeting him in this systematic manner by the Israeli occupation government and its ministers, carried out by the Israel Prison Service, reveals a clear plan to eliminate him. This sends an unmistakable message from the occupation and its instruments that such deliberate targeting constitutes a denial of the status and humanity of Palestinian detainees. It poses a real threat to the lives of all male and female detainees."

He added: "The criminal and retaliatory policies being carried out inside Israeli prisons and detention centers have exceeded all international laws and norms.

They place the leaders of the occupation at the top of the list of war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity. The executions, sexual assaults, starvation, deprivation, and other abuses inflicted upon male and female detainees have turned their lives into hell, while the continued silence of the international community places the world itself in the dock."

Abu Al-Hommus called on all free people around the world to take immediate action to save leader Abu Al-Qassam and all Palestinian prisoners, both men and women. He stressed that continued international silence grants the occupation authorities and their repressive apparatus broad latitude to continue inflicting suffering and pain on Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centers. He concluded that the time has come for the international community and all international organizations and institutions to assume moral and humanitarian responsibility for their cause.