Latest developments on detainees' conditions

*The detainee Mahmood Arda is isolated since nearly a year, besides to his five companions who escaped from Jelboa prison, as a punitive procedure. He is isolated at Remonem prison solitary confinement in a cell that lacks the minimum standards of human life. It is worthy to mention that he's from Arrabah/Jenin and he was arrested for the first time in 1992, and got rearrested in 1996 and ruled to life sentence in addition to 15 years.

 

* The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that many sick detainees are living in difficult conditions and subjected to the policy of medical ignorance and procrastination in providing medical treatment. 

* cases in point:

_the detainee Abdulrahman Burqan from Hebron,  who was shot with many bullets during his arrest in the legs, arms and abdomen, where he uses a crutch. 

_ the detainee Muhammad Falanah, who suffers from severe pain in his legs since more than 10 years, in addition to chronic arthritis and vitamins deficiency.

 

*The Commission of Detainees' Affairs said that the administration of prisons must be held accountable on the policy of medical ignorance against Palestinian detainees,  and calls on Human rights organisations and the Red Cross to fulfil their obligations towards the issue of Palestinian detainees.