PA MP repeats libel: Israeli prisons are “a place for sowing death, slow killing, and also direct killing”
The video shows an interview with PA Parliament Member Issa Karake about the death of Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoner Khader Adnan, who died as a result of his hunger strike. In the upper right corner is the logo of Fatah-run Awdah TV.
PA Parliament Member Issa Karake: “Every year we receive a Martyr or two inside the occupation’s prisons, and therefore the prisons have become a place for sowing death, slow killing, and also direct killing against the Palestinian prisoners (sic.).”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 4, 2023]
Issa Karake is a former Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and former PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs.
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."
Khader Adnan – a 45-year-old Palestinian terrorist and senior member of the Islamic Jihad terror organization who was arrested on Feb. 5, 2023, and indicted for membership in a terrorist organization and incitement to terror. He died on May 2, 2023, in an Israeli prison, as a result of conducting a hunger strike that lasted 86 days, during which he refused both food and medical treatment. As a result of his terror activities, Adnan had previously been arrested 9 times and served 8 years in prison, during which he staged numerous hunger strikes.