PA libel: Doctors in Israeli prison clinics work as if they were in a test lab, inventing medicines and trying them on the sick prisoners"

Headline: “The sick prisoners – a slow death in the occupation’s prisons”

“Prisoner Muhammad Nawarah (i.e., terrorist, involved in the murder of 2 people) said… that the doctors in the prison clinics are working as if they were in a test lab, and are inventing medicines and trying them on the sick prisoners (sic., see note below regarding the PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners). He added that these doctors do not have the required experience to treat them.”

Muhammad Nawarah – Palestinian terrorist who participated in the Ramallah lynching on Oct. 12, 2000, in which a Palestinian mob brutally murdered and mutilated the bodies of two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, who had accidentally entered Ramallah. Nawarah is serving life 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."