{"id":58037,"date":"2026-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2026\/02\/02\/malaysian-organizations-call-for-urgent-international-action-to-save-palestinian-prisoners-and-hold-occupation-accountable\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"malaysian-organizations-call-for-urgent-international-action-to-save-palestinian-prisoners-and-hold-occupation-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/malaysian-organizations-call-for-urgent-international-action-to-save-palestinian-prisoners-and-hold-occupation-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Organizations Call for Urgent International Action to Save Palestinian Prisoners and Hold Occupation Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">Malaysian<br \/>\nOrganizations Call for Urgent International Action to Save Palestinian<br \/>\nPrisoners and Hold Occupation Accountable<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Kuala Lumpur \u2013 Dozens of human<br \/>\nrights and humanitarian organizations in Malaysia have called for decisive<br \/>\ninternational action to rescue thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in<br \/>\nIsraeli jails and to hold Israel accountable for systematic abduction and torture<br \/>\nagainst the Palestinian people.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The call came during a<br \/>\nsolidarity rally held yesterday, Saturday, at the Kuala Lumpur Towers Park,<br \/>\ncommemorating the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners.<br \/>\nParticipants urged the international community to assume responsibility for the<br \/>\ngrave violations faced by prisoners under inhumane conditions.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Tian Chua, Secretary-General of<br \/>\nthe Secretariat for Solidarity with Palestine, stated that this initiative is<br \/>\npart of a growing global movement spanning several continents to confront<br \/>\naggression, occupation, killings, and abductions. He emphasized that governments<br \/>\nare not doing enough to protect Palestinian human rights, particularly the<br \/>\nrights of prisoners.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Meanwhile, gynecologist Dr.<br \/>\nFauzia Hassan stressed that silence or complicity in the face of an<br \/>\nextermination war constitutes participation in it. She called on peoples and<br \/>\ngovernments to reject policies that perpetuate occupation under the guise of<br \/>\npeace and to adopt strategies aimed at liberating oppressed populations,<br \/>\nforemost among them the Palestinian people.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">During the rally, Dr. Fauzia<br \/>\nwore attire resembling the uniforms of Palestinian prisoners, symbolically<br \/>\nreflecting her own past experience in Israeli detention following her arrest<br \/>\nwhile participating in the Freedom Flotilla to break the Gaza blockade. She is<br \/>\nthe founder of the charitable initiative \u201cFrom Rose to Rose\u201d and a board member<br \/>\nof the global \u201cMy Care\u201d Foundation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Zureida Qarnain, Chairwoman of<br \/>\nthe Malaysian Women\u2019s Organizations Alliance for Jerusalem and Palestine,<br \/>\nexpressed deep concern over the plight of Palestinian women, highlighting<br \/>\nshocking cases of occupation practices, including a female prisoner who gave<br \/>\nbirth in solitary confinement without any medical or psychological care.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Zureida affirmed that growing<br \/>\npublic solidarity and global awareness of occupation crimes offer a glimmer of<br \/>\nhope. She stressed the need for combined popular and governmental efforts to<br \/>\nrescue Palestinian women and free prisoners, describing these as fundamental<br \/>\nhuman rights. She also called for intensified international actions, global<br \/>\ndemonstrations, and condemnation of the occupation in various forums.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Malaysian activist Maitraya<br \/>\nMutharalingam described the situation in Palestine as exposing the hypocrisy of<br \/>\nWestern human rights discourse, emphasizing that the occupation misleads the<br \/>\nworld by labeling kidnapped Palestinians as prisoners, while in reality they<br \/>\nare victims and freedom fighters. He criticized the inability of international<br \/>\ninstitutions to halt acts of extermination and predicted increasing isolation<br \/>\nfor Israel and its allies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Concluding the event, Tian Chua<br \/>\nasserted that Zionism entrenches a culture of violence within Israeli society,<br \/>\ncalling for breaking this culture and fostering awareness based on true justice<br \/>\nand peace.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">(Source: Al Jazeera)<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\u060c <\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:\n115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=40944\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/b><b><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Organizations Call for Urgent International Action to Save Palestinian Prisoners and Hold Occupation Accountable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}