Palestinian sick prisoners in the Israeli jails facing slow death due to medical negligence

OCCUPIED Al-QUDS- The Commission for the Palestinian Detainees and Ex Detainees’ Affairs has warned of the worsening health conditions of sick prisoners in Israeli jails, noting that those prisoners are facing slow death on a daily basis due to the occupation authorities’ inhuman policies and deliberate medical negligence.

In a statement on Sunday, the commission said that 12 ill prisoners in al-Ramleh detention center, including wounded prisoners and those suffering chronic diseases and  disabilities, are suffering from very bad conditions, medical negligence and lack of medical services.

 Last year, five prisoners were martyred in the Israeli occupation jails because of medical negligence, raising the number of the martyred prisoners to 222 since 1967.

Some 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails are facing very hard detention conditions. 1800 of them are suffering from different diseases due to the spread of epidemics and bacteria and some 700 others need urgent medical intervention, especially those suffering from cancer, kidney failure and paralysis.

Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls for stopping Israel’s Judaization schemes

In a bnother context, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry renewed its call on the international community to put an end to the Israeli occupation’s plans to Judaize al-Aqsa Mosque.

In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that “the ill-famed Deal of the Century won’t succeed in achieving the occupation schemes to Judaize al-Aqsa, because it is doomed to failure thanks to the Palestinian people’s steadfastness and adherence to their rights.”

The ministry added that the occupation forces have escalated their attacks against worshippers in al-Aqsa Mosques and also against the Islamic endowments employees to prevent them from doing their job in supervising the mosque’s affairs.

 It called for an urgent international deterrent action against the occupation authorities to force them to stop their attacks and implement international legitimacy resolutions.

Hamda Mustafa