RAMALLAH, June 14, 2015 (WAFA) - Israeli soldiers from the
Nahshon special unit Sunday severely assaulted a sick Palestinian prisoner,
while he was being transferred to hospital to undergo medical examination.
Prisoner Mohammed Abd Rabo, 29, told a Palestinian
Prisoner’s Club (PPC) lawyer, who visited him in the Israeli Nafha jail following
the assault, that around 20 soldiers from Nahshon unit severally assualted him for
asking them to untie his hands and feet during his transfer to Soroka Medical
Center, in Israel, for medical examination.
He said that soldiers brutally attacked him and threw him on
the floor before sending him back to jail without taking him to hospital.
Abd Rabo, who was sentenced to 16 years in jail, suffers
from what he described as unbearable pain due to chronic stomach pain and
vomiting. He said that the Israeli prison administration only provides him with
over the counter pain killers.
Palestinian prisoners are held in overcrowded cells that
lack basic health standards, including the infestation of insects and rats,
extreme cold and lack of heating methods, and wastewater leakage into their
cells, which further aggravates their already poor conditions.
Prisoners are often subjected to physical abuse during their
detention, interrogation and transfer between prisoners, which is prohibited by
international law.
Under international law, it is illegal to transfer prisoners
outside of the occupied territory in which they are detained and it is very
difficult for the families of Palestinian detainees to obtain permits to visit
their detained relatives.
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