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The Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs is a government agency responsible for the welfare and well-being of
Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
prisoners in
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
i jails and their families. It was established in 1998 as part of the
Palestinian Authority The Palestinian Authority (PA), officially known as the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, ...
under the
Oslo Accords The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. They marked the st ...
. The ministry works to provide legal, social, and financial support to Palestinian prisoners and their families. This includes visiting prisoners, providing financial assistance to families of prisoners, and advocating for the rights of prisoners and their families in international forums. The ministry also works to document cases of torture, abuse, and other human rights violations committed against Palestinian prisoners by Israeli authorities. It aims to raise awareness of the issue of Palestinian prisoners and to hold Israel accountable for its violations of
international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...
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