The Israeli occupation prisons administration has transferred the prisoner Khalil Awawda, who has been on hunger strike for 100 days, from Ramle prison again to the hospital, after a serious deterioration in his health condition, according to what was announced by the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
The society expressed in a statement, today, Friday, that “the prison administration throughout the past period has been refusing to transfer him permanently to the hospital, and has bargained with him in exchange for the transfer to accept the treatment imposed by the hospital, knowing that the refusal of treatment and medical examinations are the most prominent tools of the detainee in the battle of hunger strike.”
A few days ago, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority warned of a “sudden health setback” that could lead to the death of the prisoner Awawda.
The spokesman for the authority, Hassan Abd Rabbo, warned of a real danger to the prisoner’s life due to the lack of fluids and salts in his body.
He said: “We warn that he will suffer a sudden health setback that may lead to his death, or the injury of his nervous system due to damage to the functions of his vital organs, such as the heart, liver, kidneys, and lungs.”
The occupation authorities had returned the detainee, Awawda, a few days ago, to Ramle prison, despite his very serious health condition, a day after the Israeli Supreme Court decided to transfer him to the hospital urgently, given his critical health condition.
Awawda suffers from severe joint pains, headaches, severe dizziness, and blurred vision. He is unable to walk and moves in a wheelchair.
The occupation detention administration deliberately transfers Awawda repeatedly to civilian hospitals, claiming that medical examinations are conducted for him, but every time he is returned without conducting them, on the pretext that he has not reached the dangerous stage.
this is only one example of the Israeli systematic prisoner health negligence. Considered one of the punitive inhumane measures imposed on Palestinian prisoners, a big percentage of them are under 18 years of age
Since October 2020, the IPS has stopped providing B’Tselem with figures in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Law.
At the end of September 2020, 157 Palestinian minors were held in Israeli prisons as security detainees and prisoners, at least two of whom were held in administrative detention. Another 2 Palestinian minors were held in Israel Prison Service facilities for being in Israel illegally. The IPS considers these minors – both detainees and prisoners – criminal offenders.
Female prisoner Israa Jaabis who was arrested in October 2015 while suffering from severe burns caused by a car accident only to be set up with a bunch of crimes she hasn’t committed while being denied medical intervention.
Jaabies was denied a nose surgery on May 27th as The Jerusalem District Court rejected a petition submitted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to perform a nose operation for her, despite the doctors’ recommendation that this is a necessary medical treatment for her, while the Supreme Court refused to agree to the appeal submitted by the association.
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