The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed that most detainees released from Israeli prisons suffer from health complications, including chronic conditions that require medical follow-up.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, the PPS noted that scabies was one of the most prominent diseases affecting released detainees, with visible effects on their bodies. Medical examinations also revealed other health problems resulting from this condition.
Israeli authorities released at least fifteen detainees from various prisons today, including administrative detainees and detainee Mohammad Fawzi Yadak from Qusin, west of Nablus governorate, who spent 20 years in Israeli prisons. His father passed away six months before his release.
Additionally, the child Eyad Ashraf Ed’eis (15 years old) from Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem was released on Tuesday under strict conditions after seven months of detention.
He was placed under house arrest, fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet, and banned from his family home.
Ed’eis was released in extremely poor health due to scabies, which have spread among hundreds of detainees in several prisons and was transferred to the hospital upon his release.
PPS added that the Israeli prison administration uses scabies as a tool to torture and abuse detainees, turning the right to medical treatment into a means of abuse over many decades.
The released detainees’ bodies also showed fundamental changes because of the systematic crimes committed by the occupation authorities against them, specifically medical crimes, and the crime of starvation, in addition to the fundamental crime of torture.
In related news, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs stated on Wednesday morning, based on a visit by its lawyer to Gilboa Prison two days ago, that the prisoners are living in tragic conditions and a painful reality due to the fascist and racist policies adopted by the Israeli prison administration in dealing with them.
The Commission noted that among the methods used by the administration are beatings, insults, breaking into rooms and sections, which have become routine.
The food provided to them remains poor in quantity and quality, there is a severe shortage of clothing and blankets, and there are no indications of consideration for weather conditions with the arrival of winter.
Additionally, skin diseases are spreading, cleaning and disinfecting materials are absent, the policy of isolation from the outside world continues, and there are restrictions and obstacles on communication within rooms and sections.
It is noteworthy that despite these releases, the occupation continues its daily abduction campaigns, accompanied by grave and serious violations.
Since October 7, 2023, the number of abductions in the West Bank has reached more than 11,300 cases, in addition to thousands of citizens (at least 5.000) abducted in the Gaza Strip.
