The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees has said that Palestinian female prisoners Bayan Azzam 24 and Amal Saad 53 have been exposed to medical neglect in Israeli jails which is affecting their health and psychological conditions.
Lawyer for the commission Hanan al-Khatib who recently visited these two prisoners in jail said that Saad from Bethlehem suffers from severe pains in her neck and back as well as hypertension and diabetes which she had as a result of her exposure to maltreatment at the hands of jailers especially during her transfer to and from courts.
Saad told the lawyer that the shackles put around her legs when transferring her to and from courts with no regard to the health problems she suffers from prevent the flow of blood in her body and worsen her condition affirming that she is not provided with proper medical treatment and the only medication she receives is painkillers.
As for prisoner Azzam the lawyer said she suffers from burns in her face and hands which she had as she was cooking in the jail.
Prisoner Azzam complained of her exposure to ill-treatment and deliberate medical abuse by the doctor in the infirmary of the jail.
In a separate incident the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that the health condition of prisoner Iyad Haribat a 35-year-old young man from al-Khalil declined as a result of his suffering from obvious medical neglect and repeated inter-prison transfers.
A PPS lawyer visited Haribat recently and affirmed the prisoner “has been suffering from a nervous illness since 2014 that causes him uncontrollable shivering in his body.”
In recent weeks prisoner Haribat has become unable to move normally after he suffered a health decline in Ramon jail. He is now confined to a wheelchair according to the lawyer.
Despite his need for proper medical treatment in a private hospital Israeli jailers recently transferred him to Ashkelon jail and then to the infirmary of the Ramla prison.
The prisoner who has spent 18 years of his 20-year prison term told the lawyer that he suffers from weakness in both hands and can no longer use them to hold anything adding that he is only given tranquilizers and hypnotics as treatment.
