According to Palestine Al-Youm news website, the media office issued a statement on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day, announcing that the Israeli regime arrested more than 5,000 Palestinians residing in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Gaza war.
The media office urged all Palestinian, Arab, and international media outlets to highlight the issue of Palestinian inmates, who are imprisoned in prisons of the occupying regime.
It also called on the international community to take on its ethical, humanitarian, and legal responsibilities.
The office called for immediate intervention of the international community when it comes to the matter of mistreatment and torture of Palestinian prisoners, in particular sick prisoners.
The Palestinian National Council chose April 17 as Palestinian Prisoner's Day in 1974 because it was the date that Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi was released in the first prisoner swap between the Israeli regime and Palestine in 1971.
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