Palestinian prisoner Saadia Faraj Allah victim of deliberate medical negligence in the Israeli occupation prisons

On December 18^th, Sa’adeh Matar Farajallah went to visit her daughter in the old city of Hebron in the southern West Bank, but the Israeli occupation forces arrested her near the Ibrahimi Mosque after beating her brutally until she lost consciousness.

Farajallah, 68, with her eight children, was martyred yesterday morning in her solitary confinement cell in “Damoon” detention center as a result of the deliberate medical negligence policy pursued by the occupation to slowly kill prisoners.

The story of grief and the pain of separation was told by the Sa’adehMatarFarajallah’sbrother, Jaafar Farajallah, who said:

“What happened is a crime. Her death was a shock. The Israeli occupation prevented us from communicating with her from the moment of her arrest, and although she is elderly and sick and suffers from drunkenness and pressure and falls into a coma from time to time, the Israeli jailer kept her in a solitary cell.”

Jaafar added: “Sadeh, the older sister, is all the beautiful memories. She needed medication and treatment, but the occupation, as usual, refused to provide it to her. Where is the international community and human rights defenders when the victim is Palestinian and the criminal is Israeli?”

Spokesman for the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Amjad Al-Najjar, indicated that Sa’adehis the oldest female prisoner, and with her ascension, the number of prisoners martyred in the Israeli occupation’s detention centers has risen to 230.

Al-Najjar said that she is a victim of a policy of deliberate medical negligence.

Al-Najjar explained that the occupation is holding 32 Palestinian female prisoners in the “Damoon” prison, which lacks the minimum necessities of life, where high humidity, in addition to the lack of hygiene and the detention of female prisoners inside narrow cells.

Al-Najjar said that the policy of medical neglect doubles the suffering of psychological and physical torture to which they are exposed and increases the risk to their lives, especially the prisonerIsraa Al-Jaabis, who suffers from severe wounds and burns.

For his part, a spokesman for the Commissariat of Martyrs and Wounded in the Fatah Movement, Nashat al-Wahidi, stated that the martyrdom of  Sa’adehMatarFarajallahdue to medical negligence opens a file of prisoners suffering from multiple diseases as a result of psychological and physical torture inside the occupation’s prisons.

Yesterday, Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh demanded the opening of an international investigation into the circumstances of the martyrdom of the prisoner Sa’adehMatarFarajallahand pressure on the occupation authorities to release all prisoners, especially patients and children.

The Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s detention centers have deliberately medical neglect and take the necessary measures to ensure that they are provided with protection and their immediate release.

O.al-Mohammad