Continuous medical crimes against sick detainees at the clinic of Alramla prison
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in a report issued today that the Israeli Prison Service keep violating the rights of detainees, especially sick ones who are held at the clinic of Alramla prison, where they deliberately ignore the health conditions of detainees and refuse to give the appropriate medical treatment. The Commission stated that (12) detainees are currently held at the clinic of Alramla prison in serious health conditions, and need urgent intervention to save their lives, but the IPS still ignoring their cases in spite of the seriousness of their conditions. Detainees names ( Manour Muqadeh, Mu’tasem Radsad, Iyad Raddad, Samer Abu Dyak, Nour Jarbou, Asef Refae, Walid Daqqa, Bashar Zaarour, Ameer Atatrah, Mahmoud Awawdeh, Ali Abu Kishek and Sultan Khalaf. The commission pointed out that sick detainees at Alramla clinic are the worst cases, where there are bullet injuries, disabled detainees and cancer cases. All of them are detained in difficult detention conditions, besides to the continuous medical violations. It is worth remembering that (700) sick detainees are currently imprisoned in Israeli jails.
(2322) orders of administrative detention have been issued since the beginning of the year until last August
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that the total orders of administrative detention since the beginning of the year reached to (2232) orders, including new orders and renewals.
The Commission pointed out that the Israeli military courts have issued (362) administrative detention orders, including (230) new orders and (132) renewals.
The Commission revealed that (111) appeals were submitted during August, but the Israeli courts rejected the majority of appeals without any convincing reason.
The Commission called upon the international community to stop this crime and put an end to the fascist regime of the occupation, which work according to Ben Gvir instructions.
🔺️ The Commission of Detainees Affairs publishes the details of health condition of the detainee Yazan Hanatsheh, 23, from Jenin.
He suffers from several diseases due to falling down from a high place before his arrest. He had fractures in the ribs,spine and the pelvis, in addition to lung problems.
However, the administration of prison keeps delaying his appointment to the clinic and giving him the appropriate medical care.
He was detained in 4/5/2023 , and sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention.
🔺️ Detainee Sultan Khalaf is on hunger strike since 21 days.
The Commission confirmed that Khalaf, 43, from Jenin, is on hunger strike since 21 days, in a protest against his administrative detention. He started his strike since the first day of arrest in 3/8/2023, where he said that the Israeli forces attacked him in a brutal way and then took him to Huwara detention center.
The Commission stated that the administration of prisons intended to torture him several times by transferring him from Huwara to Megiddo prison every day. The Commission stated that he refused to conduct medical tests or take supplements or medications, noting that he has diabetes, discs in the back and neck, breath shortness and imbalance in hormones and liver enzymes.
🔺️ The Commission of detainees stated that the Israeli authorities
extended the detention of Maher Akhras for 7 days under interrogation.
It is worthy to mention that the detainee is on a hunger strike for the second day.
He entered a hunger strike on November 2020 for 103 days , protesting against his administrative detention
After the arbitrary transfer from Ashkelon to Nafaha
Detainees of Ashkelon summit an appeal for compensation
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated in a report issued today that detainees of Ashkelon prison have submitted a collective appeal to the court, to compensate the damage and losses caused by the special forces to their sections.
They stormed a section that contains 30 detainees, the majority of them are sick, and caused huge damage in detainees' belongings and items, besides to the brutality and physical attacks against detainees, without taking into account their health conditions.
The Commission pointed out that transferring detainees from one prison to another is just an arbitrary policy pursued by the administration of prisons to torture detainees.
🔺️ The Commission of Detainees' Affairs reveals cases of deliberate medical ignorance against Palestinian detainees:
🔸️ Detainee Nathir Dar Ahmad, 21, from Ramallah, suffers from a difficult health situation, where he was injured with 25 live bullets during arrest. He has intense pain in the stomach and back, where he's unable to stand or walk. He needs a special kind of needle, but the administration of prisons give him painkillers to stop the pain temporarily.
🔸️Detainee Ahmad Kaabnah, 53, from Jericho: he suffers from prostate disease since 6 years and needs an urgent surgery, but the administration of prisons keeps procrastinating in his treatment.
He is detained since 26 years and sentenced to life imprisonment.
🔸️Detainee Sameer Abu Ne'meh, 63, from Jerusalem:
He suffers from difficult health situation due to the harsh conditions of detention and interrogation, besides to the deliberate medical ignorance to his case, where he has pain in his right arm due to torture and beating during interrogation. He also suffers from intense pain in his backbone, and shoulder tendon rupture.
He is detained before the Oslo Accord in 1986 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
🔺️ 22 Detainees at Huwara detention center suffer harsh and miserable circumstances.
The Commission stated, after a visit to Huwara detention center to the detainee Anan Khader, that the place lacks the minimum standards of human life, where there is no warm water for taking shower since two weeks. Besides, they lack bed covers , and they are offered stinky mattresses.
Detainees at Huwara are deprived of getting clothes and also deprived of having the appropriate medical care.
🔺️ The Commission stated that the Israeli authorities implemented a massive campaign of arrests, accompanied by attacks by special forces against detainees, who have been held at Itzion detention center.
Cases in point:
🔸️detainee Rami Ghnaimat, from Sourif/Hebron. He has an injury in his right leg due to falling down from a high place, where he can't walk. The Israeli forces stormed his house and bombed the outside door. He was subjected to harsh beating and torture during their way to the detention center, they tended to beat him on his injured leg.
🔸️detainee Akramah Najeh from Jenin, where he has been arrested from his house by a force equipped with dogs and weapons. They destroyed his house belongings, and he was beaten on the head and face, which caused him bruises and bleeding.
Fares: Intelligence officers compete on publishing the overnight arrests
The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qaddura Fares, stated that the reduced ethics of the occupation system violates the humanitarian standards and the principles of international humanitarian law.
Fares pointed out that the increasing arrests against the Palestinian people comes due to the competition between intelligence officers on social media platforms, where they post the incursions and vandalism acts on Facebook. In addition, they publish pictures of detainees while being handcuffed and blindfolded.
Fares called upon international human rights organisations to assume their responsibility toward the Palestinian people, and to hold Israel accountable for these violations that contradict international agreements and charters.