PA official: Israel is “deliberately harming the prisoners and planting diseases in their bodies”

Headline: “A demonstration of the medical sector in Ramallah in a demand for global intervention to save the sick and [hunger] striking prisoners”

“Hundreds of civilians, most of them health sector employees and foremost among them [PA] leadership members and senior officials, demonstrated yesterday [Oct. 31, 2019] in the center of the cities Ramallah and El-Bireh as a sign of support for the sick prisoners and the national prisoners’ movement…

Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor [Laila Ghannam] said that… all of the facts confirm that the occupation is deliberately harming the prisoners and planting diseases in their bodies, and is also not providing them with the medical treatment that is necessary and anchored in the international conventions.”