WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The sick prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, especially the Negev desert prison, are facing double suffering during the cold winter, in light of imposed penalties and restrictions on prisoners by prison administrations, which amount to humanitarian crimes.
Palestinian prisoners in the Negev prison are languishing in extremely harsh health and detention conditions, as they are exposed to all forms of abuse and repression.
The human rights organizations concerned with prisoners reported that the Negev prisoners are deprived of simplest living essentials, noting that the prison administration has recently removed all windows’ glass, allowing cold air into prisoners ’rooms, amid shortage of blankets and winter clothes, exacerbating their ordeal.
Following visits to the Negev prison by their lawyers, the prisoners organizations reviewed a number of pathological cases among the detainees of the prison, including detainee Aladdin Asdoudi, 47, from the city of Tulkarem, who was sentenced to eight years and suffers from a weak heart muscle.
Asdoudi underwent medical examinations before October 7, 2023, and was then transferred to Soroka Hospital, where it was found that he suffers from a weak heart muscle with a 46% percentage, high blood fat, and stomach ulcers. He was also infected months ago with Scabies.
Prisoner Khalil Zaaqiq, 21, from the town of Beit Ummar in Al-Khalil, suffers from a nervous condition with loss of consciousness and muscle cramps, a condition he experienced after he was hit on his head at the hands of Israeli occupation soldiers at his arrest time in 2020. The prison administration gives him medicines that keep him almost asleep.
Zaaqiq also suffers from a swelling in the genitals area for which a surgery was scheduled for him to treat a water cyst that causes him severe pain, but he could not undergo the operation because of his arrest. The prison administration deliberately neglects his health condition and refuses to provide him with the required treatment.
A third captive, Thaer Asasa, 32, from the city of Jenin, has been suffering from Scabies and a swelling in the back of the head as a result of being subjected to beating inside the prison.
