The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested 40 Palestinians after they injured them with bullet fire since the start of the anti-occupation uprising in early October, a rights group reported.
Head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Abdullah al-Zaghari, said the IOF shot and injured 40 Palestinians before they arrested them shortly afterwards on allegations that they attempted to carry out anti-occupation attacks.
According to al-Zaghari the injured arrestees have been subjected to mistreatment and torture in Israeli hospitals and lock-ups. Several of them have also gone through a sharp health deterioration as they had been exhaustively interrogated and left without urgent treatment for long hours.
Two injured detainees had their legs amputated due to medical neglect while others were aggressively beaten to force confessions, the activist added.
A PPS attorney who visited the injured Palestinians at the Ofer jail raised alarm bells over the agony they have been made to endure due to medical negligence.
PPS head in al-Khalil, Amjad al-Najar, said 26-year-old Jawad al-Feroukh has gone through a sharp health deterioration and risks to have his right hand amputated due to the serious complications inflicted by bullet wounds sustained on December 12.
Al-Najar called on the International Red Cross Organization to work on providing the detainee, sentenced administratively to four months in the Negev prison, with urgent medical therapy before it is too late.
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