PLO falsely accuses Israel of having a “deliberate and systematic policy of medical neglect” in prisons 

Headline: “Cancer patient prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’er has contracted the Coronavirus”   

“The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs reported today, Sunday [July 12, 2020], that cancer patient prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’er (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of at least 4), 46, from Jenin, has contracted the Coronavirus and is currently in the Assaf Harofeh Hospital.  

The commission said that Israel’s deliberate and systematic policy of medical neglect and negligence is what has made the prisoners a target for the Coronavirus and all the dangerous epidemics and illnesses that are killing them…  

The commission said: ‘Prisoner Abu Wa’er, who is suffering from throat cancer and is in a serious and complicated condition, was transferred last Tuesday from the Gilboa Prison to a hospital in Afula for a number of tests, including a Coronavirus test, and it turned out that he was not sick… Later he was transferred to Assaf Harofeh [Hospital] for a number of tests, including a Coronavirus test, and it turned out that he had contracted the virus.’  

It should be noted that after his contraction [of the virus] was confirmed, prisoner Abu Wa’er, prisoners of his wing of the Gilboa Prison, the prison manager, and 23 prison guards were put into quarantine.”  

Kamal Abu Wa’er – Palestinian terrorist and member of the PA Presidential Security Force 17 who participated in a number of lethal terror attacks including: the murder of Israeli border policeman Madhat Yousef in a shooting attack at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on Oct. 1, 2000; the murder of Rabbi Benjamin Herling in a shooting attack at Mount Eival on Oct. 19, 2000; the shooting and murder of Arnaldo Agranionic, a guard at the town of Itamar, on May 8, 2001; and the murder of 16-year-old Aliza Malka in a drive-by shooting near the entrance of Kibbutz Meirav on Aug. 9, 2001. Abu Wa'er was serving 6 life sentences and died in prison in November 2020.