Doha: The State of Palestine, through its Permanent Observer to the United Nations and international organizations in Switzerland, Ibrahim Khraishi, has called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to urgently intervene to protect the lives of Palestinian detainees subjected to torture, starvation, and abuse in Israeli occupation prisons.

According to Qatar News Agency, in a letter addressed to the Red Cross, Khraishi condemned the occupation's policies that have led to the deterioration of the health and humanitarian condition of prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, who continues to endure years of solitary confinement and is subjected to beatings, shackling, and death threats.

He noted that these violations are part of a systematic policy targeting the Palestinian people and leadership, aimed at ethnic cleansing, holding the occupation fully responsible for the safety of the detainees.

Khraishi demanded the immediate release of the most vulnerable groups, including the sick, elderly, women, children, and administrative detainees.

He also denounced the assault carried out by an extremist minister in the occupation government, who stormed Barghouti's cell and threatened him with death, an act he described as a serious crime amounting to attempted murder, requiring urgent international intervention.

He concluded the letter by stressing that the fate of Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian detainees depends on immediate international action, urging the International Committee of the Red Cross and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfill their responsibilities and ensure the protection of the lives and dignity of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with international humanitarian law.