Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission has announced that the autopsy conducted on the body of the Palestinian prisoner Nassar Taqatqa found out that he died because of medical neglect after he suffered serious pneumonia.
The human rights commission said in a statement on Thursday that Taqatqa was subjected to deliberate medical neglect by the Israel Prison Service.
The commission explained that the autopsy lasted for 5 hours and samples were taken from the detainee’s body and the medications given to him after his arrest by the prison doctors.
Further examination will be carried out to determine the effect of those medications on Taqatqa’s body.
The commission noted that Taqatqa was tightly chained during interrogation and scratch marks and wounds were found on his hands and feet.
The commission held the Israeli government and the prison administration responsible for this crime and confirmed that Taqatqa was left alone without any medical intervention in an isolation cell in Nitzan prison.
Nassar Taqatqa 31 was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from his home in Beit Fajjar town in Bethlehem on 19 June. He died on 16 July while held in solitary confinement in Nitzan jail.
