25 Palestinian prisoners held in the Israeli Negev prison have tested positive for COVID-19 rights sources revealed on Friday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) affirmed that all the infected prisoners in section 25 were isolated. However no further details were revealed.
The total number of infections among Palestinian inmates has risen to 388 since April 2021.
The Negev prison is one of the most densely crowded Israeli prisons allocated for Palestinian prisoners with 1200 prisoners currently incarcerated there. It is located in the Negev desert some 72 km south-west of Beersheba.
Meanwhile the family of the cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid expressed deep concern over his serious health deterioration.
Shortly after managing to visit him in Israel’s Barzilai Hospital the family said that Abu Hamid suffers Pneumonia after acute bacterial infection.
Abu Hamid has lung cancer and recently started to take doses of chemotherapy after long Israeli procrastination and deliberate medical neglect.
Abu Hamid who has been in prison since 2002 began to fall ill in August with chest pain. Doctors found and removed a lung tumor.
The prisoner was moved back to Israel’s Ashkelon jail where his condition worsened after his access to chemotherapy was deliberately delayed more than once.
Abu Hamid is one of five brothers from the same family handed life sentences by Israel. A sixth brother from the same family was killed by Israeli occupation forces.
Over 700 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails in dire need of medical attention 170 of whom are in critical condition.
