Palestinian representative to the UN: Israel allows prisoners to die through medical negligence
Headline: “Mansour demands that the international community take steps to deter the occupying regime”
“Observer Representative of the State of Palestine in the UN Riyad Mansour sent three identical letters yesterday [Sept. 9, 2019] to UN Secretary-General [António Guterres], [UN] General Assembly President [María Fernanda Espinosa], and [UN] Security Council President [Vasily Nebenzya] for this month (Russia) [parentheses in source]. He demanded that the international community do what is required of it and take the necessary steps to deter the occupying regime from its illegal and inhuman actions against the Palestinian people. This was following the death of young Khaled Al-Raba’i (14) and Ali Al-Ashqar (17) as Martyrs in Gaza on Friday (killed Sept. 6, 2019, while participating in violent March of Return protests on the Gazan border; see note below –Ed.), and after prisoner Bassam Al-Sayeh (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 2) died in the occupation’s prison as a result of medical negligence…
Mansour said that the death of prisoner Bassam Al-Sayeh as a Martyr due to medical negligence is an example of the prisoners’ suffering, and that he suffered from cancer – but this did not prevent his arrest and did not help him against the occupation authorities.”