PA falsely claims that Israel "is deliberately murdering Palestinian prisoners"
Headline: “A vigil of support for the sick prisoners in the occupation’s prisons”
“Dozens of civilians and released prisoners participated yesterday [May 27, 2020] in a vigil of support for sick prisoner in the occupation’s prisons Kamal Abu Wa’er (i.e., terrorist involved in murder of at least 4) and all the sick prisoners…
Director of the [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club in Tubas Kamal Bani Oudeh said: ‘The occupation is deliberately murdering our prisoners’ bodies in its prisons and implementing a policy of medical neglect against them, and the occupation is treating the sick prisoners barbarically during their transfer.’”
Note: The PA claimed that this terrorist had suffered Israel's alleged deliberate medical neglect in prison.
However, later, the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs announced that “cancer patient prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’er has recovered from the Coronavirus after having become sick with it approximately two weeks ago.” [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 7, 2020]
Kamal Abu Wa’er – Palestinian terrorist and member of the PA Presidential Security Force 17 who participated in a number of lethal terror attacks including: the murder of Israeli border policeman Madhat Yousef in a shooting attack at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on Oct. 1, 2000; the murder of Rabbi Benjamin Herling in a shooting attack at Mount Eival on Oct. 19, 2000; the shooting and murder of Arnaldo Agranionic, a guard at the town of Itamar, on May 8, 2001; and the murder of 16-year-old Aliza Malka in a drive-by shooting near the entrance of Kibbutz Meirav on Aug. 9, 2001. Abu Wa'er was serving 6 life sentences and died in prison in November 2020.
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."