PA accuses Israel of committing “deliberate medical neglect” against prisoners
Headline: “A severe deterioration in the health of prisoner philosopher Walid Daqqa after he became sick with leukemia”
“Yesterday [Dec. 7, 2022], the [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club said that a severe deterioration took place in the health of prisoner philosopher Walid Daqqa (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 together with accomplices), 60, from the town of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel). In a press release, the Prisoners’ Club explained that prisoner Daqqa was evacuated to the Israeli Barzilai Hospital, and it became clear… that he had become sick with leukemia.
The Prisoners’ Club and the national prisoners’ movement with all its elements held the occupation’s Israeli Prison Service fully responsible for the health of prisoner Daqqa, which he reached as a result of the crime of deliberate medical neglect(slow murder) [parentheses in source], which is being committed against him and against his sick prisoner comrades over the course of decades (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners).
It emphasized that prisoner Daqqa has suffered from blood issues for years, and they were not diagnosed at the time as cancer. The club added that approximately two years ago he was supposed to undergo periodic blood tests, but the Israeli Prison Service dragged its feet on the matter.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 8, 2022]
Walid Daqqa - Israeli Arab member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He is serving a life sentence for being part of the squad that kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
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."