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THIS kind of Zionism pal. Not the other 'kind', you know, the one that supposedly publishes us poor poets.
Some reports in the comments and some, highlighted here regarding Zionist Torture which looks a helluva lot like Nazi brutalities:
Since the brake out of Al Aqsa Intifada on 28/09/2000, ten Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of the practice of physical torture, medical neglect, and a failure to provide the necessary health care. The ten martyrs are: 1. Prisoner Waleed Mohammad Issa Amro, 24 years old from Dora, Hebron. Died on 19/02/2003 in Nafha Desert Prison. After he suffered a heart stroke, he never received the necessary medical attention 2. Prisoner Basheer Oweis, 27 years old from Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus. Died on 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe apoplexy and the prison’s medical team never provided him anything other than tranquilizing injections every time his case deteriorated3. Hasan Abed Al Salam Jawabrah, 21 years old from Arroub Refugee Camp, Hebron. Died on 28/05/2005, in Megiddo Prison where he suffered a case of psychiatric disorder and severe depression after he was brutally beaten and physically tortured during interrogation 4. Anas Kamel Mustafa Masalmah, 18 years old from Dora, Hebron. He died on 09/03/2003, in Ashkalon Prison. He suffered serious bullet wounds before he was arrested, but he never received the necessary medical attention5. Mohammad Hasan Abu Hadwan, 65 years old from Shu’fat, Jerusalem. Died on 04/11/2004, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital after he spent 19 years imprisoned, and suffered from a heart condition. 6. Fawaz Saeed Hassan, 27 years old from Tulkarem. He died 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe heart attack. He had a heart condition 7. Abed Al Fattah Yousef Raddad, 25 years old from Tulkarem. He died on 05/05/2005, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, after he had gone through brutal interrogation as he suffered a bullet wound in the foot8. Rasem Suleiman Ghneimat, 27 years old from Ramallah. He died on 27/01/2005 in Megiddo Prison after a fire burned part of the prison9. Ali Mohammad Tawfeeq Abu Al Rubb, 20 years old from Jenin. He died on 10/06/2005 in the prison of Rosh Bina after he had undergone severe physical torture. He was found hung in his prison cell, traces of strikes were located on his skull 10. Bashar Aref Bani Odeh, 27 years old from Tammon, Tubas. He died on 23/06/2005 in Gilboa’ Prison after he suffering a heart attack
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PPS Reports On Neglected Prisoners In Israeli Jails
10/07/2005
Victims Of Medical Neglect And Physical Torture In Israeli Occupation Prisons*
Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli occupation authority suffer exceptionally bad health conditions. They are subjected to regular practices that would absolutely lead to health problems. They are targeted physically and psychologically by being denied needed medical attention, and by practices of oppression, humiliation and physical torture. Teams of detention, interrogation and prison guards belonging to the many Israeli military and security agencies commonly use these strategies.
The Israeli strategies of weakening the body, emotional state, and the soul are used intensively and tragically by a state that claims to be a democracy. The legitimizing of physical torture against prisoners by the Israeli political and judiciary system is a unique precedent on the international level. It is a dangerous violation to many international convictions and agreements.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society has recorded 950 cases of serious health problems of people who are still imprisoned by the Israeli occupation forces and suffer from a lack of medical care or attention.
Through monitoring the physical condition of Palestinian prisoners, it became clear that the level of medical care has deteriorated greatly and has become scarce and superficial. The number of ill prisoners is constantly increasing, specifically since the out break of the Intifada in the year 2000. Since then, hundreds of Palestinians with injuries, physical problems and disabilities have been arrested. The issue of providing prisoners with medical care has been used as an item for bargaining with, and blackmailing, Palestinian prisoners.
As a consequence, the health and physical conditions of Palestinian prisoners has been seriously deteriorating.
According to the observations of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Palestinian prisoners are subjected to the following violations:
* Regular medical neglect and procrastination in providing medication or surgeries for those who seriously need it until their fellow prisoners carry out some form of protest
* Failure to provide efficient treatment for the individual prisoners according to the specific health problem: physicians in Israeli prisons are the only physicians in the world who treat every health problem with one pill, “ACAMOL,” (a light over-the-counter pain killer commonly used for headaches) or even by just recommending a drink of water. Specialized physicians, dentists, eye specialists, etc are not available
* Israeli prison clinics do not have a physician available at night for emergency cases
* Absence of psychological therapists and councelors to take care of the many cases of psychological instability that need special care and supervision
* Absence of medical crews to take care of disabled prisoners who have special needs such as artificial limbs, eyeglasses, and respiratory aid for those with chronic respiratory problems and inhalers for prisoners with asthma
* Absence of proper nutrition for the chronically ill: proper meals are not provided for those who have diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and kidney failure. On many occasions spoiled food was served, which caused food poisoning
* Absence of special rooms in which prisoners with contagious diseases can be isolated, like dangerous virus carriers or prisoners with serious skin diseases. The lack of those special sections is due to over crowding
* Absence of available rooms or sections for prisoners with severe mental problems, which sometimes poses a threat to the lives of fellow prisoners
* Being transported to the hospital for medical care with their hands cuffed and their feet shackled in a close boxcar with bad ventilation, instead of transporting them in a suitable ambulance
* Some prisoners with chronic diseases are being deprived of their medication as a form of punishment
* Sick prisoners are examined from behind close doors and wire screens, only by looking, without touching them or asking them any questions
* Palestinian prisoners suffer poor sanitary conditions: their rooms are overcrowded with bad ventilation and are often damp, in addition to the serious lack of disinfectants, insecticides of even regular cleaning materials
* Frequent use of violence against prisoners such as beatings and tear gas adding serious complications to the cases of those with health problems
* Frequent punishments such as deprivation from visitations and surprise night searches, placing prisoners in solitary cells and forcing them to strip naked, adding a great deal of strain to the psychological conditions of the prisoners
* Al Ramlah Prison Hospital (the only hospital that prisoners can be transferred to) lacks the minimum qualities of a medical facility. Treatment there is just as cruel as it is in prison in terms of procedures and general conditions.
* Female prisoners suffer the absence of a gynecologist. The only physician available is unspecialized. Some prisoners were arrested while pregnant and need specialized medical follow-up.
* Pregnant female prisoners are handcuffed during labor and birth, without any consideration for the severe pain they have to suffer. Mervat Taha from Jerusalem was handcuffed to her bed while giving birth to her child Wael, as was Manal Ganem from Nablus while giving birth to her child, Nour.
* Palestinian prisoners are often given expired dated medication, as in the case of 27 year-old Sameer Ajaj from Tulkarem who was imprisoned in the desert prison Ketseot. He suffered from a severe eye infection and needed eye surgery. The doctor gave him an expired eye drop saying we do not read expiry dates.
* Interrogators use wounds and health problems as extra means of pressure in order to get confessions from prisoners. In order to do so, they place prisoners with health problems in conditions that worsen their case and cause them serious complications.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society’s observation, the health problems that Palestinian prisoners confined by Israel suffer as a result of intentional medical neglect, beating, and cruel torture can be classified as follows:
1. respiratory diseases
2. cardiac diseases
3. skin diseases
4. diabetes
5. neurological and psychiatric diseases
6. ulcer and other insistent diseases like food poisoning, also anemia and other diseases related to malnutrition.
7. bone diseases
8. urinary system diseases
9. dental problems, also eye and ear diseases.
10. dehydration and sunstroke
While examining the poor health conditions of the Palestinian prisoners, the presence of cases with chronic and serious illnesses is the most striking. There are many cases of cancer, kidney failure, paralyses, and serious heart problems, and also many cases of disabled prisoners. For example:
1. Ahmad Yousef Tamimi from Ramallah, a severe case of kidney failure and in need of a kidney transplant
2. Mansour Moqadah, from Qalqiliya, paraplegia
3. Maher Jum’a Badawi, from Balata, kidney cancer
4. Mohammad Saeed Halawah, from Hebron, kidney problems, bones caries
5. Saleh Mohammad Derieah, from Bethlehem, psychiatric problem
6. Riad Dakhl-Allah Al Emoor, from Bethlehem, heart condition
7. Ala’ Eldeen Abu Tabeekh, from Hebron, cancer
8. Murad Ahmad Abu Sakoot, from Hebron, lung cancer
9. Ahmad Lutfi Daragmah, from Tubas, paralyzed arm
10. Khader Sulaiman Radi, from Bethlehem, psychiatric problem
11. Ahmad Mohammad As’ad, from Jenin, paralyzed
12. Thaer Shreteh, from Qalqiliya, cancer
13. Manal Ibrahim Ghanem, from Tulkarem, thalasemia
14. Suna Ibrahim Al Raiee, from Qalqeiliya, psychiatric case.
15. Othman Mohammad Asad, Jenin, hemiplegia
16. Abdallah Hasan yousef, from Nablus, hemiplegia
17. Osama Mohammad Jbara, from Hebron, paralyzed arm
18. Shadi Ghawadrah, from Jenin, a gun shot in his intestines
19. Ibrahim Jalal Jayyousi, from Tulkarem, a gun shot in his intestines
20. Ahmad Fareed Shhada, from Qalandia, diabetes and heart problem
21. Bilal Awad Abu Asabah, from Salfeet, heart condition
22. Mo’taz Hijazi, from Jerusalem, neurological disease
23. Nihad Nayef Abu Sahrkh, from Nablus, gun shot in the chest, intestines and feet
24. Sami Janazrah, from Hebron, cancer
25. Hayel Abu Zaid, from the Golan Heights, cancer
26. Jum’ah Musa Ismaeel, from Jerusalem, heart stroke
27. Ala’ Kojak, from Nablus, paralyzed left arm.
28. Issa Waleed Hreimi, Bethlehem, lost his eye from a gunshot
29. Osama Mohammad Janazrah, Hebron, a gunshot in the lungs
30. Ali Hassan Shalaldah, from Jerusalem, diabetes
Since the brake out of Al Aqsa Intifada on 28/09/2000, ten Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of the practice of physical torture, medical neglect, and a failure to provide the necessary health care. The ten martyrs are:
1. Prisoner Waleed Mohammad Issa Amro, 24 years old from Dora, Hebron. Died on 19/02/2003 in Nafha Desert Prison. After he suffered a heart stroke, he never received the necessary medical attention
2. Prisoner Basheer Oweis, 27 years old from Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus. Died on 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe apoplexy and the prison’s medical team never provided him anything other than tranquilizing injections every time his case deteriorated
3. Hasan Abed Al Salam Jawabrah, 21 years old from Arroub Refugee Camp, Hebron. Died on 28/05/2005, in Megiddo Prison where he suffered a case of psychiatric disorder and severe depression after he was brutally beaten and physically tortured during interrogation
4. Anas Kamel Mustafa Masalmah, 18 years old from Dora, Hebron. He died on 09/03/2003, in Ashkalon Prison. He suffered serious bullet wounds before he was arrested, but he never received the necessary medical attention
5. Mohammad Hasan Abu Hadwan, 65 years old from Shu’fat, Jerusalem. Died on 04/11/2004, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital after he spent 19 years imprisoned, and suffered from a heart condition.
6. Fawaz Saeed Hassan, 27 years old from Tulkarem. He died 16/09/2004, in Megiddo Prison after he suffered a severe heart attack. He had a heart condition
7. Abed Al Fattah Yousef Raddad, 25 years old from Tulkarem. He died on 05/05/2005, in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, after he had gone through brutal interrogation as he suffered a bullet wound in the foot
8. Rasem Suleiman Ghneimat, 27 years old from Ramallah. He died on 27/01/2005 in Megiddo Prison after a fire burned part of the prison
9. Ali Mohammad Tawfeeq Abu Al Rubb, 20 years old from Jenin. He died on 10/06/2005 in the prison of Rosh Bina after he had undergone severe physical torture. He was found hung in his prison cell, traces of strikes were located on his skull
10. Bashar Aref Bani Odeh, 27 years old from Tammon, Tubas. He died on 23/06/2005 in Gilboa’ Prison after he suffering a heart attack
Stories Of Medical Neglect, Physical Torture And Victims Of Brutal Treatment
The following are cases of Palestinians who have died in prison, or who are still suffering:
Testimonies were taken by Palestinian Prisoner Society
1. Martyr Mohammad Hassan Abu Hadwan: 65 years old from Shu’fat, Jerusalem. He was given a life term in military prison. He spent 19 years, most of which were in the Israeli Ramlah Prison Hospital, because he repeatedly suffered heart attacks. On one occasion he went into a comma for 45 minutes. The occupation authorities refused to release him, despite the intervention of many human rights organizations and their demands to release him due to his serious health condition, his old age and the lack of the medical attention that he needed.
The Israeli prison authority isolated him in a solitary prison cell in early 2004 because he was the representative for ill prisoners in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital so was constantly demanding improvement in their living conditions. His isolation took place despite his poor health condition and his constant need of oxygen.
The prison administration allowed cardiologist Dr. Akram Al Ghoul to examine Abu Hadwan and to write a detailed report about his case. The diagnosis included that his heart functions at only 25% of normal, and that he needed an immediate open-heart surgery. Abu Hadwan died on 14/11/2004 of a severe heart attack while he was on his hospital bed.
2. Martyr Ali Mohammad Tawfeeq Abu Al Rubb: 20 years old, from Jenin. He was found murdered in his prison cell in a detention center, Rosh Bina, in the upper Galili in Israel. Abu Al Rubb was arrested on 08/06/2005 for not having a work permit inside Israel. The Israeli occupation authorities claimed that Ali Abu Al Rubb hung himself in his cell. His brother Bassam, who saw his body in the morgue of Abu Kabeer, testified that he had seen bruises and marks on his brother’s skull and that his ears were bleeding. He testified also that there were no marks or traces of any rope on his neck. He added also that the occupation authorities have informed the family about Ali’s death on 14/06/2005, four days later than his death date and they preformed an autopsy without the family’s consent.
3. Martyr Fawaz Saeed Hassan: 27 years old from the village of Attil, Tulkarem. He died in Megiddo Prison on 16/09/2004 after he had a heart attack. Fawaz suffered a heart condition but he was never examined in prison and never received any kind of medical care.
Prisoner Natheer Mohammad Nassar from Tulkarem, who is serving a term of seven and a half years in prison, was Fawwaz’s prison mate. He testified to the Palestinian Prisoner Society’s attorney, Raed Mahameed. “On Thursday 16/09/2004, about 10:30 am, I was taking a walk with Fawaz in the prison’s yard, and he seemed to be okay. Suddenly Fawaz started vomiting. I informed the prison’s doctor who came at 11:30 am. He stood at the cell’s door and through the opening, he inserted a sphygnomano meter…Then he said it was some flu symptoms. Around noon prayer time Fawaz said that he felt pressure and had a severe headache, weakness in his body, and heavy pressure in his chest. I went back and told the prison guard about that. About 2:00 pm a soldier named Alex came on duty, so I told him about Fawaz’s story, so he went back and spoke to the physician again. The physician answered: give him an Acamol pill, so he did.
“About 4:30 pm I noticed that Fawaz was very pale, so I asked him how he felt. He answered: I am really tired but I can handle it okay. About 5:00 pm Fawaz went into his room and laid down on his bed, five minutes later the prisoner Saa’d Abu Mansour, who was sitting across the room from Fawaz told me, ‘Pay attention to Fawaz. I have seen him inhale a deep breath but he never exhaled. I immediately told our prison mates to take him to the door while I ran to the administration office and told them about Fawaz. It was about 5:30 pm. At 6:30 pm the physician came to the door again. Fawas was already dead. They were going to take him to Al Affoulah Hospital but they ended up going to Abu Kabeer Morgue.”
4. Martyr Abd El Fattah Yousef Raddad: 25 years old from Sida, Tulkarem. Israeli occupation forces arrested him on 02/05/2005 after shooting him in the foot. Then he was taken to Betah Tekfa Interrogation Center. Upon the deterioration of his health condition, he was taken to Ramlah Prison Hospital where he went through a surgery in his intestines. He died in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital on 05/05/2005.
The prisoner Murad Ahmad Abu Sakoot from Hebron, who lived with Abed Al Fattah in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, testified that Abed Al Fattah “arrived to the hospital with a foot injury only. He was alert and in a very good condition.” Murad added, “He stayed with us for two days. Then he was taken to be interrogated. When he came back he complained from a severe pain in the stomach. At night he started vomiting as if an explosion had taken place in his belly. Then he was taken to Asaf Harophey Hospital. In the morning we learned that he died. This was very worrying and terrifying. We became very suspicious of the medication that they give us after this horrifying incident. The death of Abed Al Fattah left us with many unanswered questions about what happened during his interrogation, and what kind of medication he was given.”
The prisoner Bilal Awad Allah Abu Asabah from Salfit, who also was with the martyr in Al Ramalah Prison Hospital, said, “Abed Al Fattah suffered a bullet wound in the left foot only when they brought him. He seemed to be very normal. I used to help him clean up. He only had a minor injury in the left foot. He stayed with us for two days and on the third day they took him for a few hours, but he was very ill when they brought him back. He was drowsy, he was vomiting and when they took him again we heard that he died.”
5. Ill prisoner Murad Ahmad Abu Sakoot: 28 years old from Bani Naim, Hebron. He was arrested on 09/12/2001. He had lung cancer, now he is in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital. Before he was arrested he had Leukemia but he had a bone marrow transplant in Jordan. He was taken to be interrogated in Ashkalon Prison. He was physically tortured and tied down to a chair, which caused him severe back pain. He developed skin disease, with rashes spread all over his body. Although interrogators knew about his physical condition, they still tied him down to a chair with his arms tied to the back and his feet shackled. He was left in this position for over six hours at that time.
Abu Sakoot described the Ashkalon prison cell where he lived saying, “It is terrible, no widows, no natural ventilation, it has very dim light that makes your eyes hurt. There is an air-conditioner set to a very low temperature. It made the room freezing cold. The mattress and the blankets where dusty, damp, full of hair from other prisoners and it did stink badly. The cell was painted with dark gray. It had rough walls, very hard to lean against.” After the interrogation was over, Murad was transferred to the general population cells in Ashkalon Prison where his health condition deteriorated tremendously. He has a lung infection, as prison physicians would not give him any medication except pain relievers for two long years. He did not receive any other medication. Murad said, “They transferred me to solitary confinement in Ashkalon as a punishment after I had a quarrel with one of the prison guards. They kept me there for four and a half months. Then they transferred me to Beer Sheva Prison, Ashel Section, where my health condition deteriorated even further. Then I was transferred to Sorokka Hospital in Beer Sheva where I stayed for eight days at the hospital. I had the regular medication. Then I was sent back to the prison where I received pain relievers only. They gave me an appointment for a transfer to Al Ramlah Hospital but they did not do that. Then I decided to go on a sit-in strike in the prison’s clinic after I told them that they are responsible for my life. So they send me back to Sorokka. I stayed this time for twenty-three days. I went through a surgery. My left lung was amputated and they told me that I need another surgery. After that they transferred me to Al Ramlah Prison Hospital where I found out that I had lung cancer.”
According to the prisoner Murad, the hospital’s administration had approved a recommendation to release him but the intelligence departments have refused to do so.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society, along with human rights physicians, have appealed to the plea department at the General Attorney’s Office of the State of Israel to release the prisoner Murad Abu Sakoot for health reasons. At the same time we appealed to the discharge committee to release Murad for health and humanitarians reasons. The committee convened on 06/06/2005, and then the decision was postponed to 23/06/2005. On this same date the Israeli security services (Shaback) refused to release him.
6. Ill prisoner Ahmad Yousef Tamimi: 42 years old from Ramallah, was arrested on 11/11/1993. He suffers kidney failure. He is in Al Ramlah Prison Hospital for the sixth year because he has to do kidney dialysis three times a week. He also has to take medications to regulate minerals in his system. Tmimi says that they do not give him the proper diet for his condition. He adds that the hospital condition is bad and cruel, where food is not even suitable for sick humans. Tamimi said, “I have been asking for a kidney transplant for the past three years. The latest answer I have received that they will not do the transplant for me because I am not an Israeli citizen.”
He added, “I am suffering a great deal; the dialyses are very exhausting, and that affects me negatively.” He explained the hospital’s condition by saying that many patients are forbidden from visitation with their families. Those who are allowed to visitation do it from behind a separation glass wall, which makes the visit rather painful.” Tamimi said, “They treat patients badly, medication is not efficient, it is almost fake. They do oppress us and use the surprise searches while the food remains unsuitable for patients.”
7. Prisoner Mohammad Ali Rashaidah: 35 years old from Bethlehem. He was arrested on 29/04/2005. He was severely tortured in Gosh Atzion Detention Center to the point where he lost his ability to speak. Occupation soldiers beat him on the head and shot their guns next to his ears, disregarding the fact that he was shot and wounded in his left foot upon his arrest.
Attorney Husain Al Sheikh, who visited the prisoner, said, “His condition is really difficult and he is unable to carry out his basic needs without his prison mates help him do so.”
8. Islam Basheer Tawfeeq Badran: 21 years old from Tulkarem. He is serving 18 months term in Ketseot Desert Prison. He is shot and wounded in his left arm and now it is paralyzed and in great need for surgery.
Islam is visually impaired. The prison’s physician told him that he could not treat him, for that costs the State of Israel a large sum of money. The physician added, “You should have died rather than stayed alive.”
9. Prisoner Riad Dkhl Allah Al Emour: from Bethlehem. The Israeli military court sentenced him to three life terms in prison. He was arrested on 07/05/2002 and today he is in Beir Sheva Prison’s Ashel Section. He had a heart condition prior to his arrest. He went through a surgery and had a pace maker installed. In his testimony Riad said, “As a result of the severe beating I took one of the wires penetrated my skin and stuck out of my body. Although the soldiers saw the device sticking out, they did not stop, but kept on beating me on the spot where the wire is. They even started pulling it out. This act has taken place in Gosh Atzion Detention Center on the same day I was arrested. As a result of cruel beating, I vomited blood while the intelligence officers were watching me. When I told them what had happen to me, the intelligence officers refused to receive me because of my health condition. Finally they took me in after the army promised them to start an investigation about the way the soldiers had handled me.”
About the interrogation he went through, in Ashkelon Prison, Riad testified, “I thought that they would start out by providing medical attention for me. I was surprised that they interrogated me for four continuous hours without providing even first aid. Despite that I was throwing up blood continuously the only thing they gave me was a glass of water to wash my mouth with. Every time the interrogators wanted to pressure me more, they would pull the wire of the pace maker out of my body.”
In his testimony Riad clarified that he was placed in a solitary cell while he was bleeding. Because nothing was giving to him but an Acamol pill, he stopped talking until they took him to the hospital for medical care. The interrogators refused and told him that they would not take him to the hospital until he confessed to every thing he is accused of.
After twelve days of interrogation and physical torture and bleeding, he lost consciousness in his cell. When he woke up he was in Berzely Hospital in Israel while his feet and his arms were shackled to the hospital bed. He then discovered that they had operated on him and sewed 18 stitches in his body. Four days later he was shipped back to Ashkelon Prison under the responsibility of the intelligence officers. The physician in charge refused his release because of his serious condition. As soon as he arrived to prison the interrogation started again. This time he had fever and started vomiting blood again. He became too weak to speak. He was moved to the prison’s clinic and from there to Asaf Harophey Hospital. There he learned that he had caught a virus due to the internal bleeding. Interrogating Riad has continued while he was in the hospital despite his serious condition. He then had to undergo another surgery to replace the old pace maker with a new one. He was then transferred to Al Ramlah Prison Hospital where his condition had deteriorated again. This time he was taken to Tel Hashomer Hospital, where the internal device was removed and replaced by an external one on a condition that a new internal device would be installed in a few weeks. According to Riad’s testimony the expected surgery was delayed for over six weeks, which caused a serious deterioration and forced physicians at Tel Hashomer Hospital to put him through an urgent surgery for the fourth time. He was transferred again to Al Ramlah Prison Hospital, in spite of objections by Tel Hashomer Hospital physicians. At Al Ramlah his incision was infected again, so they took him back to Tel Hashomer for the fifth surgery, but this time Tel Hashomer refused to operate on him. Riad’s condition now is as follows:
1. Suffers sever pain at the location of the multiple surgeries
2. Suffers loss of hearing
3. Suffers sever pain in the stomach
4. Suffers from frequently loosing consciousness
10. Prisoner Mansour Moqadah: 26 years old, from Salfeet. He was arrested on 02/07/2002. He was shot three times in the crotch, which caused him paralyses in his right foot. Half of his stomach was amputated. Now he has an artificial replacement. He has difficulty urinating and he has to have a stool bag on his side all the time. The prisoners spoke about the soldiers leaving him to bleed for a long time. He spent thirty days at Bilson Hospital where he was a subjected to insults, humiliation and extremely cruel treatment. He said, “Three solders were guarding me at the hospital as I was shackled down to the bed.” He said that they tortured him constantly, and then they transferred him to Ramlah Prison Hospital while his incision was still open. “When I was presented to the court in Tel Aviv I was beaten twice.” Mansour said, “I was slapped strongly by a nurse at the hospital on my left cheek, then I started bleeding from my mouth because of all the medical equipment that was inserted in my nose and in my throat as I was laying on my hospital bed.” Mansour added, “I was beaten twice by the guards as they were taking me to Tel Aviv court. On one occasion I had complained to the superior security officer and the warden of Al Ramlah Prison about the cruel treatment.”
Mansour told us that every six months they take him to Asaf Harophey Hospital for follow-ups. “On one occasion when the guard went to finish my paper work at the hospital desk the driver started beating me while my hands and legs were cuffed and shackled.” At Al Ramlah Prison Hospital he took vitamin B12 shots and other medications. “They often would delay my medication, and when I asked for it they refused to give it to me on one occasion. I was punished by solitary confinement because I asked for my medicine. I cannot sleep because of the pain and the miserable prison conditions.
11. Saed Adel Mohammad Issa: 31 years old from Qalqiliya. He was arrested on 28/08/2003, after he escaped an assassination attempt by an Apachi helicopter. He was severely wounded in many parts of his body. He was taken to Maeer Hospital. A nurse grabbed him by his injured arm and screamed, ‘Why didn’t you die??’ Saed said, “They took me to Al Ramlah Prison Hospital and there I was interrogated twice while I was shackled to the hospital’s bed.” Despite his severe injuries they took him to Kishon Interrogation Center where he stayed for three months during which he was threatened with military interrogation and with arresting his wife, his sister and his mother. He said that at Al Ramlah Hospital they did not give him any pain relievers, knowing that he badly needed them. “This hospital does not even qualify for a hospital. It has small windows with wire screens all over them. Provocative searches are frequent and there are many patients that do not even receive the necessary treatment.” Saed added, “I still have a bullet in my left leg and shrapnel that has settled in my bones. They cause me severe pain that cannot be relieved except by surgeries.” He said they will not let him buy medical shoes at his own expense.
12. Prisoner Salamah Mohammad Hassn Rashaidah: 30 years old from Bethlehem. He was arrested on 07/05/2005. He lost his eyesight because of the brutal physical torture and the psychological pressure he took in Ashkelon Interrogation Center. Attorney Fahmi Shqeirat, who visited him more than once, reported that his health condition is very serious and that he was interrogated for numerous interrogation sessions that lasted up to 40 hours each. By the repetition of the long sessions his eyes began to hurt him until he lost sight and started screaming inside his cell that he could not see anything any more. When the other prisoners heard him they started screaming at the guards to bring the doctor. The prison administration never responded to that and they never provided any medical care. Instead they began making jokes and accused him of lying. The prisoner Rashaidah was arrested on 07/05/2005 after his residence was raided with extensive gunfire causing severe damage to the household contents. He was hand cuffed and taken to Gosh Atzion Detention Center where he stayed in solitary confinement for five days and was then transferred to Ashkelon, where he is being interrogated for arms trade and smuggling. It is important to note that Salamah had some pain in his eyes prior to his arrest but during interrogation it grew to be much more severe.
*Palestinian Prisoner Society, 30th June 2005
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