Sick Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli jails due to deliberate medical negligence

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- A sick Palestinian prisoner died at dawn on Friday in Israeli prisons due to Israel’s deliberate medical negligence, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) confirmed.

The PPS said that 48-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Abu Ali, a father of nine and a resident of the southern West Bank city of Yatta, has died in Israel’s Soroka Hospital due to Israel’s systematic medical negligence.

Abu Ali was transferred to the Soroka Hospital in the dawn hours of February 10 after a serious deterioration in his health condition, with some reports indicating that he suffered a heart attack or stroke.

Detained since 2012, Abu Ali was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He only had two years left before his release.

However, throughout his imprisonment years, he suffered from several diseases, chronic heart problems, and diabetes.

According to the PPS, the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) deliberately delayed providing him with the necessary treatment, conducting medical examinations, and following up on his health status, which led to his death today.

Abu Ali was also denied the chance to attend the funeral processions of his parents who died while he was in Israeli prison.

The PPS says it holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for Abu Ali’s death and the fate of all the sick and wounded prisoners inside Israeli jails, saying that what happened with Abu Ali is yet another crime to be added to a long track record of crimes committed by the occupation with systematic tools.

The group slammed the crime of deliberate medical negligence as the most prominent and dangerous of these tools, and it was the main reason behind the death of many prisoners during the past few years.

With the death of Abu Ali, the number of prisoners who died in Israeli prisons rose to 235 since 1967, 75 of whom were killed by Israel’s deliberate medical negligence with dozens of former prisoners dying as a result of diseases they were inflicted with while imprisoned.

It is noteworthy that the number of sick Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons has reached more than 600, and their health conditions have been diagnosed, including 24 suffering from cancer and tumors of various degrees.

Last December, the cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner in the Israeli prison Naser Abu Hmeid was medically neglected, resulting in his death.