(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria called on the Syrian regime to disclose the fate of almost 1200 Palestinian detainees, including 86 women believed to be in its prisons.
A report issued by the London-based monitoring has reveled that the number of Palestinian detainees in the regime's prisons since the beginning of the revolution 2011 till April, the Palestinian Prisoners Day, has reached 1183 detainees, including 86 Palestinian women, 21 from Damascus, 22 from the countryside of Damascus, 10 from Homs, 4 from Daraa, 2 from Latakia, one for each Aleppo and Hama, and 23 other women from different areas of Syria.
The group revealed that many women detainees were university students, activists, mothers with or without their children.
In one case, the Syrian regime is imprisoning 4 members of the same family, including 19-year-old Ali Daood from the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood in Yarmouk Camp.
At the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner Day, almost 5 years (since August 13, 2012) passes on detaining Dr. Hayel Hamid, the 66 years old Palestinian doctor, Professor and Head of Surgery Department in al-Assad Hospital in Damascus, was arrested from his clinic in Yarmouk camp because he was treating injured victims.
The report of the group revealed that 461 Palestinian detainees, including 34 women were executed or killed under torture. 59 of them were identified by leaked pictures of deceased torture victims.
The Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Damascus is still under siege for 1369 days by the Syrian regime supported by the Palestinian militias of Ahmed Jibril.
During that period, 195 Palestinians died of hunger and lack of medical care. Water is not available in Yarmouk for 951 days, and1100 days in the Palestinians camp in Daraa.
In Handarat camp in Aleppo, people are prevented from returning to their houses, although the regime has recaptured for from 6 months.
The Syrian conflict began March 2011, when the Syrian regime responded in military action to peaceful protests demanding democracy and dignity. Since then and according to independent monitors, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed in the war most of them by the regime and its allies, and millions have been displaced both inside and outside of Syria.
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