Published : 18-04-2025
London | Action Group
On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, which falls today, April 17, we remember the thousands of missing Palestinians in the prisons of the defunct Syrian regime. They were forcibly arrested and disappeared for years, their fate unknown until the fall of that regime.
The Action Group affirms that the collective Palestinian and Syrian memory will not forget those who were forgotten in the dungeons of injustice in Syria, nor the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons, whose lives and the lives of their families have been transformed into a hell of waiting, anxiety, and grief.
Palestinian refugees in Syria have been, for decades, an integral part of the Syrian national fabric, but they found themselves caught in the winds of a conflict to which they had no part, becoming targets of systematic campaigns of arbitrary arrest and a systematic enforced disappearance. Thousands of Palestinian refugees, men, women, and children, have disappeared without a trace, leaving behind families with little hope of knowing anything about them. They live in tragic conditions that worsen with each passing day, suffering devastating psychological, social, and economic consequences.
Palestinian Prisoners' Day should be an occasion to send a clear message to the entire world, emphasizing that the issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees is a single cause, rooted in the dungeons of the occupation and the prisons of oppressive regimes. Therefore, on this Palestinian Prisoners' Day, The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria
1. calls on the international community, the UN Security Council, and human rights and humanitarian organizations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities to identify the Palestinians who went missing in the prisons and detention centers of the defunct Syrian regime and to release those held in Israeli jails.
2. We call on donor countries and international organizations to allocate urgent and sustainable support programs for the families of missing Palestinians in Syria, to meet their basic needs and provide them with specialized psychological and social support.
3. Forming independent and impartial international commissions of inquiry to investigate the crimes of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance targeting Palestinians in Syria, and bringing the perpetrators to international justice.
4. Calling on international legal and human rights institutions to provide the necessary legal support to the families of the missing, document their cases, and prosecute those responsible for these crimes before international courts.
*Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, London: April 17, 2025*
London | Action Group
On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, which falls today, April 17, we remember the thousands of missing Palestinians in the prisons of the defunct Syrian regime. They were forcibly arrested and disappeared for years, their fate unknown until the fall of that regime.
The Action Group affirms that the collective Palestinian and Syrian memory will not forget those who were forgotten in the dungeons of injustice in Syria, nor the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons, whose lives and the lives of their families have been transformed into a hell of waiting, anxiety, and grief.
Palestinian refugees in Syria have been, for decades, an integral part of the Syrian national fabric, but they found themselves caught in the winds of a conflict to which they had no part, becoming targets of systematic campaigns of arbitrary arrest and a systematic enforced disappearance. Thousands of Palestinian refugees, men, women, and children, have disappeared without a trace, leaving behind families with little hope of knowing anything about them. They live in tragic conditions that worsen with each passing day, suffering devastating psychological, social, and economic consequences.
Palestinian Prisoners' Day should be an occasion to send a clear message to the entire world, emphasizing that the issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees is a single cause, rooted in the dungeons of the occupation and the prisons of oppressive regimes. Therefore, on this Palestinian Prisoners' Day, The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria
1. calls on the international community, the UN Security Council, and human rights and humanitarian organizations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities to identify the Palestinians who went missing in the prisons and detention centers of the defunct Syrian regime and to release those held in Israeli jails.
2. We call on donor countries and international organizations to allocate urgent and sustainable support programs for the families of missing Palestinians in Syria, to meet their basic needs and provide them with specialized psychological and social support.
3. Forming independent and impartial international commissions of inquiry to investigate the crimes of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance targeting Palestinians in Syria, and bringing the perpetrators to international justice.
4. Calling on international legal and human rights institutions to provide the necessary legal support to the families of the missing, document their cases, and prosecute those responsible for these crimes before international courts.
*Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, London: April 17, 2025*
