Health Conditions of Striking Detainees Deteriorates, Some Transferred to Hospitals

Ramallah, 26 Sha’ban 1438/23 2017 (MINA) – Health condition of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons who have been on hunger strike for 36 days is deteriorating and requires effective procedures to save their lives, especially after transferring many of them to hospitals, WAFA quoted the Media Committee of the strike as saying on Monday.

It said the prisons’ administration was isolating the striking detainees from the outside world and putting obstacles in front of their families and human rights organizations to prevent them from knowing their health condition.

The committee also said, according to testimonies of striking detainees, that the prisons’ field clinics the Israel prisons administration had established before the strike began lack the basic medical equipment. Moreover, detainees are offered to be treated in return for ending the strike.

The media committee added that the prisons’ administration has recently transferred all striking detainees to prisons close to hospitals, following their worsening health situation.

The media committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the World Health Organization and Physicians for Human Rights to compel the occupation government to prevent a real catastrophe in prisons by agreeing to the prisoners’ demands and to demand precise information about health conditions of striking prisoners. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)