Prisoner Club: Medical negligence threatens the lives of 25 prisoners infected with Corona

Occupied Jerusalem (ST): The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that 25 prisoners were infected with the Coronavirus in the Negev detention center, warning that the policy of deliberate medical negligence pursued by the Israeli occupation authorities against prisoners doubles the risks that threaten their lives.

Wafa news agency quoted the club as saying in a statement today that the number of prisoners held in the Negev detention center is more than 1,200, which increases the possibility of recording more infections in light of the difficult conditions the prisoners live in and the occupation’s reluctance to provide means of prevention from the virus and the necessary treatment for the infected, indicating that the occupation authorities deliberately, since the beginning of the spread of the Corona pandemic, have turned it into a tool to abuse the prisoners and use it to impose more measures that exacerbated their suffering.

Meanwhile, Umm Nasser, 72 years old, who lives in Al-Amari camp in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, is the mother of a martyr and five prisoners who are languishing inside the prisons of the occupation (Nasser, Nasr, Sharif, Muhammad and Jihad). She continues describing her son Nasser’s story by saying, “My son Nasser, 49, has been detained since 2002 and before that he was also arrested five times so spending more than 35 years in the occupation cells, during which he was subjected to the most horrific forms of physical and psychological torture, in addition to being seriously injured more than once by the occupation bullets, calling on the international community to save her son.

K.Q.