DaysofPal—The Prisoners’ Media Office has revealed a serious escalation in the suffering of child detainees in Israel’s Megiddo Prison, amid what it described as deliberate medical negligence by the prison administration.
This neglect has led to the spread of serious skin diseases such as scabies and the appearance of boils on the children’s bodies, without any effective medical intervention.
In a statement monitored, the office stated that several of the detained minors are in critical health conditions. Some are unable to move their hands or touch anything due to extreme pain, while others must rely on their fellow detainees to help them eat, as they can no longer stand or walk.
The office emphasized that the conditions endured by these minors in Israeli prisons amount to a clear crime of medical neglect.
It is worth noting that since the start of Israel’s aggression on Gaza, occupation forces have arrested over 17,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 545 women and 1,400 children. Currently, at least 10,400 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons, including 49 women, 440 children, and 3,562 administrative detainees, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.
This escalation coincides with ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip and continued military and settler assaults in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, which have resulted in the killing of at least 980 Palestinians and the injury of nearly 7,000 others.
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