PA libel: Israel "slowly murders" Palestinian prisoners as part of a "systematic policy of medical neglect"

Headline: “Released prisoner and cancer patient Hussein Masalmeh died as a Martyr”

“The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs announced that released prisoner and cancer patient Hussein Masalmeh (PMW was unable to determine the nature of his crimes -Ed.) died as a Martyr last night [Sept. 22, 2021] at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

It should be noted that the occupation (i.e., Israeli) authorities ordered to release prisoner Masalmeh, 39, from the town of Al-Khdeir south of Bethlehem on Feb. 14, 2021, and that he was transferred to the Hadassah Hospital in occupied Jerusalem.

Since the end of last year [2020] Masalmeh’s health deteriorated. He suffered from pains for more than two months, during which the occupation’s Israeli Prison Service delayed in transferring him to the hospital and implemented a systematic policy of medical neglect(slow murder) [parentheses in source] against him (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners). At the time he was at Ketziot Prison, until his health became serious and he was transferred to the hospital where it became clear later on that he was sick with leukemia at an advanced stage.

Masalmeh was at Hadassah Hospital until Sept. 13, 2021, and then he was transferred to Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

It should be noted that prisoner Masalmeh was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years, of which he served approximately 19 years.”

Libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners