Ramallah, occupied West Financial institution – A Palestinian prisoner, who was rushed to a hospital after falling right into a coma on Thursday night time, has died in Israeli custody with two years of his 12-year sentence left.
Ahmad Abu Ali, 48, was introduced useless on Friday morning on the Israeli Soroka hospital within the southern Naqab space (Negev). Abu Ali was affected by illnesses together with persistent coronary heart issues and diabetes, in keeping with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS).
The Palestinian prisoner motion introduced “a state of alert” and several other protest actions on Friday morning in response to Abu Ali’s dying. These included returning all meals for sooner or later, in addition to shutting down the jail sections and refusing to cooperate with jail authorities throughout three days of mourning.
Abu Ali, a father of 9, was transferred to the hospital abruptly on Thursday night time after he fell right into a coma in his cell, the PPS informed Al Jazeera.
The prisoner group mentioned he died because of medical negligence by Israeli jail authorities, holding Israel liable for his dying.
His well being issues had been “accompanied by the deliberate procrastination of the jail administration in offering him with the required therapy and in conducting medical examinations for him and following up on his well being standing till this led to his dying right now,” the PPS mentioned in a press release.
It mentioned that Abu Ali had well being issues previous to being imprisoned in 2012, however that these had “critically deteriorated” throughout his time behind bars because of the “basic coverage of medical negligence”.
“There is no such thing as a correct care in jail,” Amany Sarahneh, spokesperson for the PPS, mentioned.
“He was not taken to hospital for follow-ups in an everyday method – which is one thing that every one sick prisoners face. They’ve to attend months and generally years for dire medical check-ups and surgical procedures, and generally these are solely carried out after stress from the prisoners themselves or their attorneys,” she informed Al Jazeera.
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Fee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs mentioned in a press release it “condemns the crime of killing the prisoner Ahmad Abu Ali”.
“It’s inconceivable that the worldwide silence ought to proceed within the face of those systematic crimes,” the fee mentioned.
Medical negligence
Tensions inside Israeli prisons have been excessive in latest weeks, and have threatened to fire up an already-fragile state of affairs on the bottom within the occupied Palestinian territories.
Collective punishment measures had been imposed for greater than per week on at the very least 100 detainees throughout quite a few prisons, together with particular person and collective solitary confinement, raids and searches of rooms, beatings, confiscation of all electrical gadgets, and bans on canteen entry and household visits.
Since 1967, at the very least 235 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons, in keeping with the fee.
Palestinian officers and rights teams have lengthy documented and condemned a “deliberate Israeli coverage of medical negligence”.
Specialised medical doctors usually are not usually out there, apart from dentists, and “over-the-counter painkillers are administered as a treatment for nearly all well being issues,” rights teams mentioned in a joint report back to the United Nations.
In 2020, 4 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody.
In November 2021, Palestinian prisoner Sami Umour, 39, died following a months-long delay of an urgently wanted surgical procedure for the intense coronary heart issues he was affected by.
The overwhelming majority of Palestinians view detainees in Israeli prisons as political prisoners who’ve been jailed for resisting the Israeli navy occupation, which isn’t recognised beneath worldwide legislation.
There at the moment are about 4,700 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, together with 150 kids and 34 girls. This consists of roughly 600 prisoners who’re ailing with completely different illnesses, in addition to greater than 20 that suffer from most cancers.
In the meantime, 835 prisoners are held beneath “administrative detention,” a controversial Israeli coverage that permits it to carry Palestinians with out cost or trial.