Health condition of 14 Palestinian prisoners is deteriorating, says commission

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (ST)_The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has warned that the health condition of 14 Palestinian prisoners held in Al-Naqab jail is deteriorating because of the Israeli occupation authorities’ criminal practices against them.

 

The Commission said that the al-Naqab Prison administration is now confining 14 detainees in section number six under brutal conditions for more than a month now. It also said that the detainees are isolated in section number six that had been set on fire by some detainees a month ago, in retaliation for the torture practiced by the occupation on detainees in all the prisons, in the aftermath of Operation Tunnel of Freedom in which six detainees broke free from Gilboa prison.

 

Furthermore, the commission pointed out that the detainees are isolated without light, and the prison’s administration gives them mattresses at 12 a.m. and takes them back at 6 a.m., without any blankets.

 

“They sometimes move the detainees, who are always handcuffed, to the external cells from 6 a.m. till 12 a.m.”, it added.

 

It also stressed that the administration didn’t offer the detainees any clothes other than what they were wearing, and that it doesn’t let them out for medical examination, despite some of them suffering from skin conditions, joint pain, backache and kidney pain.

 

In this context, WAFA news agency reported  that the health condition of the prisoners, who are on hunger strike, especially the prisoners Kayed Al-Fasfos, who has been in hunger strike for 85 days, and Miqdad Al-Qasawmeh , who has been in hunger strike for 77 days, is very dangerous. 

 

There are 5000 prisoners in the occupation jails. Some 600 of these prisoners need urgent treatment. 

 

Basma Qaddour