PLO gross libel: Israel has a "policy of killing [Palestinian prisoners] and execution”

Headline: “The [PLO] Executive Committee demanded that the international community impose sanctions on the occupation”

“The PLO Executive Committee demanded that the international community put practical tools in place to exert pressure on the Israeli occupation in order to stop its aggression and crimes against our people, to impose sanctions on it, to boycott it, and to put it on trial…

The Executive Committee saluted the prisoners who are in the occupation’s prison cells and their resolve facing the policy of isolation, torture, and deliberate medical neglect for the purpose of carrying out the policy of killing and execution.”

Libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners - The PA claims that Israel abuses Palestinian prisoners through medical neglect, medical experiments, and by intentionally infecting them with diseases. However, the International Red Cross regularly visits these prisoners and has not documented or accused Israel of any of these claims. Likewise, lists of demands occasionally issued by the prisoners during hunger strikes—such as during one in 2011—include no demands relating to these claims. PMW has documented prisoners talking about how they "lack nothing" in the prisons and that "the worst thing about Israeli prison" is riding in a prison vehicle that has no padding on the seat. When PMW contacted the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2007 regarding PA claims of medical experiments on prisoners, the ministry responded: "Clinical testing on prisoners in prison was never approved, never performed, and is most certainly not taking place at present."