The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a statement that the team submitted a comprehensive legal file on the violations suffered by prisoners in Israeli jails, as well as another file on the crimes of genocide and starvation perpetrated against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
During a press conference outside the court's headquarters in The Hague, the legal team announced that it had submitted a list of 21 names of Israeli officials whom it demanded be tried for crimes committed in the Palestinian territories.
The Prisoners' Club described this step as "the first of its kind in terms of its scope and coordination," emphasizing that it was the result of extensive cooperation between Palestinian and international human rights organizations and was based on documented evidence and testimonies collected over the past few months.
The statement quoted the head of the Prisoners' Club, Abdullah al-Zaghari, as saying that the legal team relied on accurate reports and testimonies confirming the "slow, systematic death" in Israeli prisons, noting that 73 prisoners have died as a result of torture, medical neglect, or starvation.
For his part, the club's general manager, Amjad Al-Najjar, said that the files were prepared in cooperation with prisoner organizations inside Palestine, adding that the documents include "testimonies from dozens of prisoners regarding the grave violations they suffered."
Al-Najjar explained that the legal action enjoys broad support from European institutions, which have agreed to represent them on the team, in addition to official Palestinian support from various bodies working on prisoners' issues and human rights.
He added that the files contain extensive details about administrative detention, deprivation of health care, starvation, physical and psychological torture, and harsh detention conditions, particularly for prisoners from the Gaza Strip, who are held in camps that lack even the most basic necessities of life.
It is noteworthy that the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on November 21, 2024, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
In parallel with the massacres perpetrated in Gaza, the occupation army and its settlers continue to escalate their attacks in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. These attacks have so far resulted in the martyrdom of at least 993 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 7,000, and the arrest of more than 18,000, according to Palestinian data.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding more than 195,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women. In addition, more than 10,000 are missing and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, amid a famine that is claiming the lives of civilians, including dozens of children.
