Ahrar center: Israel escalated its medical neglect policy against prisoners

Ahrar center: Israel escalated its medical neglect policy against prisoners

Palestinian Information Center

July 16, 2009

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, (PIC)-- Al-Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights said Thursday that Israel escalated the policy of medical neglect pursued against Palestinian prisoners in its jails with the aim of destroying them psychologically.

The center affirmed that the Israeli behavior against Palestinian prisoners became worse than ever after the capture of soldier Gilad Shalit, adding that Israel escalated its restrictions and punitive measures against them.

Fouad Al-Khafash, the center director, said that the prisoners in Ramle prison are living in a big stable not suitable for human use.

Khafash also said that 30 prisoners in Ramale are dying, while many others live on medical equipments or suffer from paralysis or chronic diseases, noting that there are thousands of prisoners in other jails who are living in the same misery.

He added that the Ramle prison administration provides prisoners with tons of different painkillers which palliate the pain and not eliminate it, which made the prisoners’ bodies lose their reaction to these medicines and suffer from stomach disorders and other internal diseases.

In another context, the IOF troops stormed and ransacked the house of prisoner Anas Abdelrahim in Deir Al-Ghusun town in Tulkarem and confiscated the hard disk of his personal computer. The prisoner has been questioned by Israeli interrogators since two months.

In a press release, the ministry of prisoners stated that prisoner Mohamed Hamdeo from Gaza, who was kidnapped in 1989 and is serving a life sentence, has joined the list of prisoners who served 20 years or more, thus raising the number of prisoners’ deans to 106 detainees.