Palestinian prisoners who "suffers from deliberate medical neglect" receives copious cancer treatment in Israeli prison
Headline: “Performing an operation to implant a plastic tube in the neck of prisoner Abu Wa’er”
“The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners’ Affairs said that the so-called Ramle Prison Hospital conducted an operation a few days ago to implant a plastic tube in the throat of cancer patient prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’er (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 4), 46, from the village of Qabatiya, and this was in order to help him breathe. The commission explained in a statement it issued that prisoner Abu Wa’er is not currently receiving any kind of medicine or treatment and is only taking painkillers.
The commission explained that prisoner Abu Wa’er’s suffering from the cancer began to manifest from the end of 2019, and he underwent a number of rounds of radiation [treatment] following deliberate medical neglect by the occupation’s Israeli Prison Service.”
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."