PLO libel: Israel "is deliberately violating the rights of the sick Palestinian prisoners in order to kill them”

Headline: “Abu Bakr: The occupation is deliberately violating the rights of the sick prisoners in order to kill them”

“Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr emphasized that the occupation government is implementing a policy of deliberate medical murder against the prisoners.

During a visit he made together with a delegation from the commission to a number of released prisoners in Bethlehem, Abu Bakr said… that the occupation authorities and their Israeli Prison Service are not honoring the international and human standards on everything regarding the treatment of sick prisoners.”

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."