Israeli occupation uses scabies for torture of Palestinian prisoners

WEST BANK, Nov. 05 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation forces have used scabies as a tool for torture of the Palestinian prisoners in Negev prisons.

Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported in a statement that the Negev prison is witnessing a severe health crisis due to the spread of scabies among hundreds of prisoners, causing them severe and complex symptoms.

The statement confirmed, based on visits made by their lawyers to a number of prisoners in the Negev prison between October 27 and 30, that the detention conditions in which the prisoners live violate their human rights, as medical neglect and physical and psychological torture prevail.

The visits recorded that out of 35 prisoners they met, 25 of them were infected with scabies, reflecting the level of ill-treatment to which prisoners are subjected, especially the patients and elderly.

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