RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The family of the injured Wafaa Jarrar, 49, from Jenin, requested that the Israeli Afula Hospital hand over her amputated legs for burial according to Islamic law.
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that the lawyer of the injured woman submitted an urgent request, on behalf of her family, to the director of the Israeli Afula Hospital, the director of the intensive care department and the Israeli Ministry of Health demanding the return of her amputated legs to bury them according to Islamic law.
The lawyer had received an unexpected verbal response from one of the hospital’s doctors stating that the limbs had been disposed of.
Prisoners’ institutions described this as “a new violation added to the complex crime that the occupation carried out against Jarrar from the moment of her arrest from her home in Jenin last May 21.”
The request also included a demand to obtain her medical file from the moment of her arrest on May 21 until her release from the hospital on May 30.
It also demanded clarification of what happened on May 27, the day on which the injured woman underwent a below-the-knee amputation of her legs, after obtaining approval from her family and lawyer. Later on, though, it became evident that another amputation had been done on her legs above the knee without her family’s approval.
Jarrar, 49, was detained by the Israeli army during an incursion into Jenin in the occupied West Bank on May 21.
An explosive device hit the military vehicle transferring Jarrar to the al-Jalama military camp near Jenin, causing severe wounds in her legs, according to the Israeli army.
The circumstances of the explosion remain unknown, and no further details have been announced by the Israeli army about the incident.
