GAZA (PIC)– The Nafha society for the defense of prisoners and human rights strongly denounced the Israeli Negev prison administration for storming and attacking the prison sections at dawn Monday using internationally forbidden weapons against the Palestinian prisoners considering it a dangerous step flouting all international laws and conventions on human rights.
Nafha also accused Israeli prison administrations of racism and Nazism where they use the Palestinian prisoners every once in a while as guinea pigs to test the affectivity of their suppressive weapons pointing out that every Palestinian prisoner gets in Israeli jails is vulnerable to different assaults.
The society called on the PA leadership to give the issue of Palestinian prisoners special attention during any negotiations they hold later because of its sensitivity.
For his part Dr. Ahmed Bahar the acting speaker of PLC expressed his grave concern about the Israeli escalation against Palestinian prisoners in the Negev detention camp considering it an assault on a basic human right of freedom and on the Geneva Convention of prisoners’ treatment
Dr. Bahar called on Ban Ki Moon the UN secretary-general to take an urgent human step and form a committee to investigate the Israeli assault on Palestinian prisoners in the Negev jail and to bring Israeli officials to trial.
He also called for dispatching a UN delegation to visit the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and to guarantee them the appropriate medical treatment as well as to ensure that the prisoners’ families are allowed to visit their sons in the Negev prison and hospitals after the assaults committed against them.
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
About 11500 Palestinian prisoners in all Israeli prisons and detention camps decided to go on hunger strike in protest at the death of prisoner Mohamed Al-Ashqar and at the Israeli attack on the Negev prison sections which led to the injury of many other prisoners.
Ashqar clinically died on Monday in the Soroka hospital in Beersheba after the prison policemen shot him in the head.
Sources concerned with prisoners confirmed that Israeli security elements handcuffed the victim while he was bedridden in the hospital and tried to prevent his mother from visiting him but later she managed to look at him for only five minutes after the Red Cross intervened.
The death of Ashqar raised the number of Palestinian death toll inside Israeli jails who had been killed since 1967 to 192 victims 73 of them were killed since the beginning of the first intifada in 1987.
