PA official blames Israel for diseases among prisoners
Headline: “Karake: ’The prisoners live in a state of anxiety and worry because of the increase in diseases among them’”
“Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake said that the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons live in great anxiety and worry because of the increase in dangerous diseases among them in the past few years. Karake demanded that the Israeli prisons be declared as unhealthy places that do not meet international and humanitarian criteria as detention centers… Yesterday [May 26, 2013] Karake visited the families of sick prisoners from the Hebron District… The visit included the family of Mahmoud Sharha Abu Saleh from the town of Dura in the Hebron District, who was sentenced to 22 years and suffers from growths in his throat, and the family of prisoner Munif Abu Atwan who suffers from problems in his cornea and needs a [cornea] transplant. In addition, the delegation visited the family of prisoner Na’im Al-Shawamreh, in the town of Dura, who suffers from speech difficulties and the family of prisoner Maher Abu Rayyan from the town of Halhul who suffers from acute breathing difficulties and weight loss.”
Notes: Maher Abu Rayyan - Islamic Jihad activist serving 25 years in prison for planning many terrorist attacks, including a shooting at a bus on the Halhul bypass road in June 2003.
Munif Abu Atwan - serving 5 life sentences for involvment in the 2002 Otniel terror attack, in which 4 yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) students were killed.
“Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake said that the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons live in great anxiety and worry because of the increase in dangerous diseases among them in the past few years. Karake demanded that the Israeli prisons be declared as unhealthy places that do not meet international and humanitarian criteria as detention centers… Yesterday [May 26, 2013] Karake visited the families of sick prisoners from the Hebron District… The visit included the family of Mahmoud Sharha Abu Saleh from the town of Dura in the Hebron District, who was sentenced to 22 years and suffers from growths in his throat, and the family of prisoner Munif Abu Atwan who suffers from problems in his cornea and needs a [cornea] transplant. In addition, the delegation visited the family of prisoner Na’im Al-Shawamreh, in the town of Dura, who suffers from speech difficulties and the family of prisoner Maher Abu Rayyan from the town of Halhul who suffers from acute breathing difficulties and weight loss.”
Notes: Maher Abu Rayyan - Islamic Jihad activist serving 25 years in prison for planning many terrorist attacks, including a shooting at a bus on the Halhul bypass road in June 2003.
Munif Abu Atwan - serving 5 life sentences for involvment in the 2002 Otniel terror attack, in which 4 yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) students were killed.