PLO spreads libel that the Israeli prison service commits "premeditated medical murder"
Headline: “The occupation’s crimes against the prisoners continue: Sa’adi Al-Gharabli dies as a Martyr, and Muhammad Salah Al-Din has become sick with cancer”
“Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr said that the occupation’s Israeli Prison Service officially announced to them yesterday, Wednesday [July 8, 2020], that prisoner Sa’adi Al-Gharabli (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1), 75, from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City, has died as a Martyr in the occupation’s prison, following suffering and a bitter prison term that lasted more than 26 consecutive years…
Abu Bakr said: ‘With great sadness and grief, [we inform that] elderly Martyr prisoner Al-Gharabli has passed away, following a crime of premeditated medical murderthat was committed through the neglect of his health at the hands of the Israeli Prison and Oppression Service for many years.He suffered from prostate cancer, diabetes, and [high blood] pressure. Thus the number of prisoner Martyrs rises to 224 since 1967.’ …
Sa’adi Al-Gharabli – Palestinian terrorist and Hamas member from Gaza who stabbed and murdered Israeli civilian David Mashli in his sleep at his home in Tel Aviv on June 26, 1994. Al-Gharabli was serving a life sentence when he died of cancer in July 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."