The “Prisoners Authority”: 200 prisoners have been infected with Corona since the beginning of this year

The “Prisoners Authority”: 200 prisoners have been infected with Corona since the beginning of this year

The Prisoners and Executives Affairs Authority said that 200 prisoners in the occupation prisons have been infected with the Corona virus since the beginning of this year, which brings the total number of infections to about 340, most of them concentrated in the prisons of Raymond and the Negev.

The commission’s advisor, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said: “Five prisoners were transferred to Israeli hospitals and the“ Ramla ”prison clinic, due to the deterioration of their health due to complications from Corona infection. Ayman Sidr, and recently the most prominent case of prisoner Khaled Ghizhan .

Abed Rabbo indicated, in an interview with Voice of Palestine Radio, this morning, Saturday, that a state of anxiety prevails among the prisoners and their families, due to the interruption of visits, in light of the deterioration of the health status of a number of prisoners, as a result of deliberate medical negligence by the occupation prison administration .

He pointed out that the occupation court rejected the petition submitted by the commission to release the prisoner Hussein Masalmeh, who suffers from cancer, as he is now in the Israeli "Soroka" hospital, and his case will be considered next Wednesday .

Abd Rabbo added that the occupation prisons administration continues to isolate four prisoners, and they are: Wael al-Jaghoub in isolating Megiddo prison 210 days ago, Fadwa Hamadeh, 82 days ago in isolating Damon prison, and prisoner Omar Kharwat more than 47 days ago. Yuma, and the captive, Nawal Al-Fatiha, has been in Al-Damun detention camp for a week .

He pointed out that the two brothers Bilal and Bassam Dhiab, from Kafr Rai in Jenin, are continuing their open hunger strike for the tenth day in a row, in protest at the poor conditions of their detention.