PLO top Official falsely claims Israel "wants to murder" Palestinian prisoners
Official PA TV, live broadcast from a rally in Ramallah supporting terrorist prisoner and cancer patient Nasser Abu Hmeid, who was responsible for the murder of 7 people
Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr: “[The Israelis] are incapable of even accepting that the prisoners are inside the prisons, because the prisoners have turned the prisons into schools and universities and they are studying. [The Israelis] don’t want [this], of course. They don’t want this situation. They want to murder them. Therefore, they use this method: When one of [the prisoners] gets sick, they exploit the illness and make it worse so he will die as a Martyr in prison (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners)…
There are prisoners who have been murdered in prison. In Jenin, for example, the prison manager murdered two of the prisoners in his office who were representatives [of the prisoners in] the prison, and he remained manager of the prison afterwards for four years (sic., PMW found no record of such an incident). In other words-”
Official PA TV reporter: “That’s execution.”
Qadri Abu Bakr: “That’s execution in their offices, because [the prisoners] said something. He told them to apologize. They didn’t apologize, so he shot them. Many of the prisoners who entered prison after being wounded during a certain operation (i.e., terror attack) died as Martyrs in prison. Many of them [died] either from torture or let’s say, what do you call it, from chronic illnesses. We had a number of Martyrs as a result of cancer who died as Martyrs.”