PPSF claims Israel deliberately kills “Palestinians” prisoners

“Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF, a PLO member organization -Ed.) Political Bureau member Hakam Taleb said that the occupation’s crimes are continuing against our people around the clock, and particularly against the sick prisoners, the female prisoners, and the child prisoners. He emphasized that the policy of slow killing against the prisoners through the policy of medical neglect and deliberate killing of the prisoners is being done clearly before the entire world (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners).”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 26, 2023]

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."