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"Mr President, the death of Arafat Jaradat in Israeli detention, by torture, has shone a light again on the brutally repressive measures of the Israeli state. Since 1967, more than 200 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons as a result of torture, medical negligence or homicide.
As has been mentioned already, virtually every family in Palestine has had a family member imprisoned. Since 1967, almost 800 000 Palestinians have been imprisoned and almost 5 000 are currently in prison, including more than 200 minors.
When I was in Gaza, I was given demonstrations of the kind of torture that is carried out regularly against Palestinian prisoners: they are forced into stress positions for hours or days at a time, kept in isolation and subjected to brutal beatings by prison guards. I met with children unable to visit their mothers, and women unable to visit their husbands, because the prisoners are held in Israeli territory, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention, while their family members are stuck in Gaza in what is in many cases effectively an outdoor prison.
There are eight Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike, including Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawna, who are near death. They, together with all of the political prisoners, should be released immediately and the military court system in the occupied territory should be scrapped.
When Shimon Peres addressed this Parliament on Tuesday, he wheeled out all the old propaganda about Israel being a Western democracy. These lies are contradicted by the death of Arafat Jaradat. They are contradicted by the introduction of segregated bussing of Palestinians from the West Bank. They are contradicted by the expansion of settlements around East Jerusalem.
An MEP has expressed a fear that there may be a third intifada, but what other choice do the Palestinian people have? There will be no real peace and no real justice as long as the rule of the capitalist Israeli establishment continues. There needs to be is a mass struggle by the Palestinian people from below – protests, strikes, democratic committees of struggle – together with Israeli workers, to challenge the rule of imperialism and capitalism in the Middle East and open the road to a real and lasting peace based on a socialist confederation of independent viable states."@en1
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