The national committee to support prisoners met with a delegation of the Red Cross in Nablus province on Tuesday and handed them a memorandum on the isolated sick and striking Palestinian prisoners.
The committee requested a serious consideration by the Red Cross of the prisoners’ affairs in general and of the situation of the sick and isolated ones in particular as well as those held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
The committee pointed in its memorandum to the existence of cancer patients among prisoners who have been detained for 15 years. It noted that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) doesn’t provide them any medications but painkillers holding Israel accountable for the death of any of the sick prisoners.
It warned of the medical negligence policy pursued against sick prisoners like what happened with prisoner Mohammed al-Jallad who was suffering from cancer in lymph nodes and died after the IPS denied him proper treatment.
It also warned that prisoner Waleed Daqqa who will enter his 32nd year of imprisonment in few days and who has been isolated for more than two weeks now might suffer the same fate of al-Jallad.
The national committee called in conclusion for submitting an urgent report to the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres on the current conditions of the sick Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. It also demanded forming an international committee to determine the causes of al-Jallad’s death.
The committee called for ending the IPS violations and oppressive measures against prisoners including solitary confinement administrative detention prosecution of children imposition of fines and medical negligence policy which is considered a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
