(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Palestinian commission for detainees' and ex-detainees' affairs has said that seven prisoners in Asqalān (Ashkelon) jail suffer from very difficult health conditions as a result of their exposure to deliberate medical neglect.
"The policy of medical neglect and deprivation is an intentional and systematic measure pursued by the occupation prison authority to kill the prisoners one way or another," the commission stated Sunday.
It added that those seven prisoners are not provided with proper health care or medication, appealing to international health and human rights organizations to pressure Israel to stop its medical neglect policy against the detainees in its jails.
55 Palestinian prisoners with medical conditions have died in different Israeli jails. Eight others died following their release.
Their death was attributed to the medical neglect policy pursued by Israel against Palestinian prisoners in its prison, according to local human rights reports.
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