PA TV libel: Israeli doctors “experiment” on Palestinians in Israeli prisons

Official PA TV program Giants of Endurance, on the ‎death of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, ‎after prisoner Daoud Talaat Al-Khatib died of a heart ‎attack while serving an 18-year sentence; hosting ‎released prisoner Samir Abu Fayed – PMW was ‎unable to determine the nature of Al-Khatib and ‎Fayed’s crimes

Released prisoner Samir Abu Fayed: “It is ‎expected that every day a Martyr prisoner will die. I ‎don’t want to provide a negative image or frighten ‎the prisoners’ families. But in effect, every moment a ‎Martyr could die.”…‎
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Unfortunately this has become something ‎expected. This is our situation inside the prisons, ‎and of course this situation is a result of deliberate ‎neglect, not natural negligence. Deliberate neglect ‎is different than negligence. This is deliberate and ‎calculated neglect. You go to the clinic, or to the so-‎called ‘clinic,’… There is no diagnosis for the ‎prisoner’s illness to define his treatment. He gives ‎you experiments, and I’m not exaggerating – this is ‎the reality of the situation. Most of the medicine that ‎we take are pain relievers or experimental – if if the ‎precise term is experimental, like a [laboratory] test. ‎‎[If] it worked for you, it worked. [If] it didn’t work, there ‎is no solution.” ‎

PMW Note: The International Red Cross visits every ‎Palestinian prisoner and has never reported any ‎neglect in medical care or “experimental” drug use.‎

Libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners - The PA claims that Israel abuses Palestinian prisoners through medical neglect, medical experiments, and by intentionally infecting them with diseases. However, the International Red Cross regularly visits these prisoners and has not documented or accused Israel of any of these claims. Likewise, lists of demands occasionally issued by the prisoners during hunger strikes—such as during one in 2011—include no demands relating to these claims. PMW has documented prisoners talking about how they "lack nothing" in the prisons and that "the worst thing about Israeli prison" is riding in a prison vehicle that has no padding on the seat. When PMW contacted the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2007 regarding PA claims of medical experiments on prisoners, the ministry responded: "Clinical testing on prisoners in prison was never approved, never performed, and is most certainly not taking place at present."