Poster in PA daily honours “Martyrs of the policy of medical neglect” as PA falsely claims that "75 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli prison as a result of premeditated murder"
Headline: “The occupation continues to hold the body of prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’er, alongside six [other] prisoner Martyrs”
“Kamal Abu Wa’er (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of at least 4) ascended [to Heaven] as a Martyr as a result of the policy of deliberate medical neglect (slow murder) [parentheses in source] (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners)…
[The PA-funded Prisoners’ Club] also explained that among the prisoner Martyrs there are 75 Palestinian prisoners who ascended [to Heaven] as a result of premeditated murder and an additional seven who [died] after they were shot directly and 71 [who died] as a result of the policy of medical neglect (slow murder) [parentheses in source].
Likewise, physical and mental torture is the main systematic policy that caused the deaths of 73 prisoners over the passing decades…
It should be pointed out that this anniversary comes with the intensification of the medical neglect policy, and the appearance of new cases of disease among the prisoners’ ranks, the most prominent of these cases being that of prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 7), who recently it became clear that a tumor has spread in his lungs.”
The article includes a picture of a poster featuring the pictures of seven terrorist prisoners who died in prison with their names underneath them.
Text on poster: “The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club
Martyrs of the policy of medical neglect
Prisoners’ movement Martyr – Kamal Abu Wa’er
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Prisoners’ movement Martyr – Fares Baroud (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 person)
Prisoners’ movement Martyr – Aziz Awisat (i.e., terrorist, attempted several bombings and wounded 2 people)
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Prisoners’ movement Martyr – Bassam Al-Sayeh (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 2 people)
Holding the bodies of the prisoner Martyrs is an international crime”
Nasser Abu Hmeid - Palestinian terrorist and a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing) in Ramallah who was responsible for the murder of 7 Israelis: Eli Cohen in a shooting attack on Route 443 in central Israel on Dec. 21, 2000; Binyamin and Talia Kahane in a drive-by shooting attack near Ofra, north of Jerusalem, on Dec. 31, 2000; Gadi Rejwan in a shooting attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Atarot on Feb. 27, 2002; and Yosef Habi, Eli Dahan, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat in an attack at the Seafood Market and Mifgash Hasteak restaurants in Tel Aviv on March 5, 2002. Abu Hmeid is serving 7 life sentences and an additional 50 years.
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.
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."
Fares Baroud – Palestinian Hamas terrorist who was serving a life sentence for murdering Israeli citizen Mordechai Roitman and wounding three others in Roitman’s furniture store in Hadera on March 20, 1991. Baroud died from a chronic illness on Feb. 6, 2019, at Soroka Medical Center, where he had been transferred for treatment.
Aziz Musa Salem Awisat – Palestinian terrorist and Hamas member who attempted to blow up a building in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem on Feb. 23, 2014, and two weeks later attempted to blow up other buildings in Jerusalem. Awisat was arrested in March 2014 and admitted to these crimes, as well as to wounding an Israeli with an axe at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2012. Awisat was sentenced to 30 years. While imprisoned, Awisat injured a prison guard by throwing boiling water over him, for which he was indicted in May 2018. Awisat died on May 20, 2018, in Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, while being treated for a heart condition.
Bassam Al-Sayeh – Palestinian terrorist who authorized and raised funds for the shooting attack by a Hamas terror cell in which Israelis Naama and Eitam Henkin (also an American citizen) were murdered on Oct. 1, 2015, in front of their four children, aged 9, 7, 4, and 4 months. Al-Sayeh was arrested on Oct. 8, 2015, and died in prison of cancer – a pre-existing condition from before his arrest – on Sept. 8, 2019.