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Egypt FM condemns Israel over Palestinian prisoners torture

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Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr has condemned the acts of torture and ill-treatment perpetrated against Palestinian prisoners at Israeli jails.

On Monday, Amr also said that the International community should adopt a firm stance against Israeli’s “inhuman practices against the Palestinian prisoners.”

Amr made the remarks after the Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoners’ affairs said Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat was tortured before he died in an Israeli jail on Saturday.

Late on Sunday, Issa Qaraqea revealed the results of autopsy at a press conference in the city of Ramallah in West Bank.

Qaraqaa dismissed Israeli prison officials’ claims that Jaradat had died of cardiac arrest in Israel’s Magiddo prison. The 30-year-old was arrested on February 18 on suspicion he was involved in hurling stones at Israeli troopers.

His death has sparked anger among Palestinians who want an international probe.

More than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial. Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogations.

Independent rights groups say Israelis frequently put Palestinian detainees in solitary confinement, allowing very few family visits, and often forcing them to go through regular strip searches.

According to an April 1, 2012 report published by the non-governmental Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, at least 4,610 “political” Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails.

Independent sources, however, put the number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails at 11,000.

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