PA libel: Israel “wants to murder” the imprisoned terrorists, deliberately making their illnesses worse

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

Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr: “The prisoners have turned the prisons into schools and universities and they are studying. [The Israelis] don’t want [this], of course... 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.”

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."