Detainees in Al Damoun Israeli detention facility demanded local and international humanitarian organizations impose pressure on Israel in order to provide them with their basic rights guaranteed by the International Law.
The Detainees Media Center reported the they facing harsh living conditions, and bad medical treatment, in addition to the over crowded rooms there are placed in.
Also, the center revealed that the prison authority in Al Damoun is not providing the detainees with water for bathing and that the water used for drinking is dirty and mixed with sand.
The detainees voiced an urgent appeal to humanitarian organizations operating in the Palestinian territories and Israel to interfere and provide the sick detainees with the needed medical help.
Several detainees contracted bladder infections and other related problems which caused internal bleeding. The administration failed to provide them with the needed medical care and treatment, and only gave them painkilling pills.
The detainees complained that the food provided to them was corrupt in several incidents, and that they repeatedly found bugs and cockroaches in it.
Also, the detainees demanded the administration to improve the conditions in the visitation rooms, and to remove the dark barriers separating them from their families. The dark barriers are not only barring them from having direct body contact with their families, but also barring them from seeing them clearly.ÂÂ
Prison administration is also barring the families from bringing clothes and other daily necessities to their imprisoned family members.
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Raed Mahameed, said after visiting a number of detainees in Al Damoun detention, said that the drinking water in the facility includes a high concentration of chlorine, in addition to small stones and bugs; several detainees contracted kidney infections.
Palestinian detainees have repeatedly carried out hunger strikes in protest against the inhuman treatment and living conditions they face in detention, in addition to the lack of medical treatment and medications.
The parents of Najeeb demanded that the attackers be brought to justice and called for exposing the acts and violations carried out by the Israeli police and soldiers against the Palestinian detainees.
Bad conditions, health problems in Al Damoun Detention Facility
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies – Friday, 05 August 2005
Several detainees in the al-Damoun detention facility have contracted diseases of the kidney and other health problems as a result of the polluted drinking water in the facility, according to Raed Mahameed, a lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
Mahameed said several detainees he has visited recently informed him that the water includes a high concentration of chlorine, in addition to small stones and bugs. Several detainees contracted kidney infections.
Detainee Ala’ Sarhan, from Tulkarem, told lawyer Mahameed that the prison administration is not doing anything to distill the water, which forces the detainees to buy their drinking water from the prison canteen at high prices.
Sarhan appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights organizations to intervene against the continuous Israeli violations
Palestinian detainees have repeatedly carried out hunger strikes in protest against the inhumane treatment and living conditions they face in detention, in addition to the lack of medical treatment and medications.
Recently, Israeli soldiers and policemen in al-Qishta police detention center severely kicked and punched detainee Ashraf Nabeel Najeeb, 23, from Jerusalem.
Najeeb fell unconscious while the soldiers were hitting him and was transferred to Bikor Holim Hospital.
The parents of Najeeb demanded that the attackers be brought to justice and called for exposing the acts and violations carried out by the Israeli police and soldiers against the Palestinian detainees.
