PA TV Libel: World must intervene to save terrorist prisoner who contracted Coronavirus and stop Israeli “plots of calculated and premeditated killing”
Official PA TV News
Official PA TV newsreader: “On to the Southern Districts (i.e., the Gaza Strip), where the Fatah Movement Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs held a rally supporting prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki (i.e., senior PA official and weapons smuggler), who it was announced last week that he became infected with the Coronavirus. [The protesters] are demanding that the international institutions intervene to stop the occupation’s violations against the prisoners.”
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Gaza Governor Ibrahim Abu Al-Naja: “Why are they turning their backs on our heroes? [Fuad Al-Shubaki] ‘Abu Hazem’ is a fighter, an international fighter, for the sake of his people and his people’s rights. How is the world standing on the sidelines today and watching as this man is persecuted by plots and as there is calculated and premeditated killing here (sic., see note below regarding the PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian 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."