Israeli guards fire tear gas into prisoner’s hospital room
Rights and Accountability 1 November 2019
Palestinians hold a demonstration to show solidarity with hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, on 19 October in Gaza City.
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An Israeli prison guard deployed to watch a hospitalized Palestinian prisoner reportedly fired tear gas into the intensive care unit room where the man was convalescing after treatment for injuries sustained during interrogation.
The Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported that an Israel Prison Service guard “accidentally” emitted tear gas in Samer Arbeed’s room at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem earlier this month, requiring doctors to intervene.
Maariv said the incident was never reported to the prison service.
Arbeed was hospitalized on 27 September following his interrogation by Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet.
But being hospitalized has not stopped his ordeal and Israeli prison authorities have continued to questionArbeed even while in the ICU.
Prisoners rights group Addameer said Israel’s torture of Arbeed caused him pneumonia and eleven broken ribs, among other serious injuries, potentially making exposure to tear gas even more detrimental to his health condition.
United Nations rights experts are calling on Israel to investigate claims of torture of Arbeed.
Addameer’s Mahmoud Hassan, Arbeed’s lawyer, was not informed of the tear gas incident.
In fact, the head of the ICU gave Hassan a medical report indicating that deterioration in Arbeed’s pulmonary system was due to a “contamination,” Addameer stated.
Israel extended Arbeed’s detention by eight days during a court session held at the ICU on 22 October after he was gassed. Hassan was barred from attending that session as well.
Shnerb was killed by what the Israeli military said was an improvised explosive device near the Dolev settlement in the West Bank on 23 August that also injured her father and brother.
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Jarrar was taken from her home near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in the early hours of Thursday morning by what Israeli media reports said were security forces belonging to the Shin Bet.
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