TULKARM (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Negev desert prison decided to go on hunger strike on Monday in protest at the death of comrade prisoner Fadi Abul Rub 19 who died Friday night in his cell in the Israeli Jalbo prison as a result of the deliberate medical neglect exercised by the prison administration.
The Negev prisoners of all factions said in a phone call with the Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies that they decided to go on this strike to be united against the policy of the Israeli prison authority and against the policy of medical neglect inside Israeli jails.
For its part the PLC strongly denounced the Israeli occupation for causing the death of prisoner Abul Rub confirming that Israel provided new clear evidence that it disregards and denies all international and humanitarian laws and norms in dealing with the Palestinian prisoners in its jails amid suspicious silence of the international institutions that claim to be concerned with human rights.
The PLC urged the Palestinian resistance to uphold the terms of prisoner swap deal with Israeli occupation and make further efforts to get the Palestinian prisoners released after more than seven prisoners had died in 2007 alone and dozens of prisoners over the past years.
The PLC called on the international community to form an international committee to bring the “Zionist criminal leaders” to trial for all the crimes they committed against the Palestinian people especially the prisoners in Israeli jails.
For its part the studies center for prisoners’ affairs warned that the Arab and international silence on the violations committed against Palestinian prisoners encourage the Israeli government and the Israeli prisons authority to continue to tamper with the lives of prisoners and to infringe on the principles of human rights and international conventions.
The center called for forming commissions to determine the causes of deaths amongst Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in order to work on eliminating them because they have become a nightmare for the prisoners’ families.
The Nafha society for the defense of prisoners’ and human rights called on the organizations concerned with human rights especially the Physicians for Human Rights Doctors without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross to save the life of a paralyzed prisoner called Rabea Harb from Salfit who is lying in the Israeli Ramla prison hospital.
Harb became paralyzed after the IOF troops shot him with an explosive bullet of type dumdum in his spine more than a year ago.
He has never undergone any surgery since then or has been given any medication; he depends entirely on his prison mates to meet his needs or relieve himself.
The society also revealed that there are 1500 imprisoned patients who are almost dead and need serious and responsible stand by local and international organizations concerned with human rights to save their lives before it is too late.
In the same context lawyers of Nafha society unveiled after a series of visits to a number of Israeli prisons and detention camps that the Palestinian prisoners are experiencing serious Israeli psychological and physical abuses with the presence of terrible media blackout on the inhumane practices of Israeli jailers inside these prisons.
The lawyers said that some prisoners are subjected to suppressive practices as happened with prisoner Ziad Marish from Nablus who is prevented from sleeping for long periods of time and interrogated for more than 20 continuous hours.
In the context of communicating with imprisoned lawmakers the society’s lawyer met with all MPs who for their part emphasized the need to rescue prisoners from the continued repression mass punishment and medical neglect being exercised by Israeli jailers.
The prisoners’ complaints focused mostly on the suspension of financial allocations tightness of cells lack of toilets scarcity and badness of food in addition to physical and verbal abuses.
For her part MP Mona Mansour a member of Hamas parliamentary bloc held the Israeli occupation entirely responsible for the lives of Palestinian prisoners inside its jails calling for exposing the crime of causing the death of prisoner Abul Rub at all levels.
In a press release received by the PIC MP Mansour asserted on Sunday that the lives of more than 11000 Palestinian prisoners including 1500 patients inside Israeli jails are in danger calling on the international organizations especially the Red Cross to work on providing protection and medication for Palestinian prisoners.
