Hamas has warned of the increasing number of prisoners in Israeli jails infected with coronavirus calling for urgent international action to save their lives.
Abd al-Latif al-Qanoo Hamas’s spokesperson said in a written statement on Tuesday “The rise in Coronavirus infections among prisoners in the occupation prisons the latest of which was today seven new infections is a dangerous indicator threatening the lives of the prisoners.”
He added that this increase requires international institutions to quickly intervene and pressure the Israeli occupation to save the lives of the prisoners in light of the indifference of the Israeli Prisons Authority and its failure to take the necessary action to confront the spread of the deadly virus in lines of the prisoners.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) announced on Tuesday that seven Palestinian detainees at the Israeli Ofer prison were infected with the coronavirus.
PPS reported in a press statement that the administration of Ofer Prison west of Ramallah informed the detainees that seven of their colleagues had been infected with the Coronavirus.
This announcement raises the number of Palestinian detainees infected with COVID-19 to 24.
The occupation authorities are holding about 4700 Palestinian prisoners in their prisons including 41 women and 160 children and the number of administrative detainees (held without charge) has reached 365.
