HASHARON JAILERS MEDICALLY NEGLECT FEMALE DETAINEES
Tel Aviv, 5 Dzulqa’dah 1434/9 September 2013 (MINA) – The Palestinian prisoners center for studies said that the Palestinian women detained in Hasharon prison suffer from deliberate medical neglect.
The center stated on Sunday that one third of the Palestinian female prisoners in this jail do not receive proper health care and medical treatment, which causes their conditions to deteriorate.
The center noted that there are 12 Palestinian women in Hasharon jail suffering from bad incarceration conditions and exposed to an intentional medical neglect policy.
It appealed to international human rights groups to necessarily intervene to pressure the Israeli prison authority to provide them with appropriate health care.
Female ex-detainee Islam Bashiti, released a few days ago from an Israeli jail, said the incarceration conditions of Palestinian women in Hasharon prison are very harsh and inhumane.
Bashiti told the Palestinian prisoner center for studies that the female prisoners in Hasharon jail are exposed to constant harassment and provocative actions by the prison administration and its jailers.
She said seven women are being held in two cells numbered 1 and 8, and the latter is the worst because it is near the room of Israeli female criminals who keep shouting annoyingly and cursing Palestinian women all the time.
She added that the presence of Israeli felons in the same jail with Palestinian women poses a threat to their lives especially after Palestinian detainee Ala Al-Jawba was almost strangled to death by an Israeli convict.
She noted that the Palestinian women in Hasharon jails are also medically neglected and two of them, Lina Jarbouni and Salwa Hassan, are awfully sick and in very bad shape without proper medication or treatment.
Bashiti expressed her dismay at the absence of support for their issue from the official Palestinian authorities in the West Bank, human rights organizations and women groups.
No one is following up the Palestinian women’s suffering in Hasharon jail or care about them except for some human rights lawyers who only visit them to transfer messages to and from their families, she affirmed.(T/P08/P04)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
