PA libel: Israel has a "policy of slow medical killing" of Palestinian prisoners

Headline: "The occupation has arrested 357 civilians, including 48 children, since the beginning of the spread of the Coronavirus"

"The prisoner institutions have explained for [Palestinian] Prisoner's Day… data regarding the prisoners in the Israeli occupation's prisons:

• The number of the prisoner movement's Martyrs stands at 222 Martyrs, and this is since 1967, in addition to hundreds of prisoners who have died as Martyrs after their release from illnesses they caught from the prisons.
• The number of prisoners that the occupation has killed as a result of the policy of slow medical killingthrough steps of deliberate medical neglect, which is part of the ongoing and planned policy, has reached 67 since 1967."

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."