Prisoners Club: The occupation uses scabies as a tool to torture detainees

Ramallah - Ma'an - The Prisoners' Club confirmed that the majority of detainees who are released from Israeli occupation prisons suffer from health problems, including chronic problems, and need medical follow-up. The Prisoners Club indicated, in a statement, on Tuesday evening, that scabies was one of the most prominent diseases that the detainees were released from, and its effects were clear on their bodies. Medical examinations also proved that they suffered from other health problems as a result. Today, the occupation authorities released at least 15 detainees from several prisons, who had completed their sentences, including administrative detainees and detainee Muhammad Fawz Yadak from Qusin in the Nablus Governorate, after spending 20 years in the occupation prisons, noting that his father died 6 months before his release date. Today, the child Iyad Ashraf Idais (15 years old) from Shuafat camp in occupied Jerusalem was released with strict restrictions, after being detained for 7 months. He was tr ansferred to house arrest and was bound with an electronic bracelet for monitoring and keeping him away from his family's home. The child, Adaees, was released in very difficult health conditions due to his infection with scabies, which spread among hundreds of detainees in several prisons, and he was transferred to the hospital. The Prisoners Club added that the occupation prison administration uses scabies as a tool to torture and abuse detainees, and has transformed the right to treatment over many decades into a tool of abuse. This has reached its peak since the beginning of the war of extermination, as institutions have followed up on many testimonies from detainees inside prisons, and those who have been released, about how the prison administration uses the disease to torture them and cause them health problems that are difficult to treat, including children, patients, and the elderly. He explained that the last of these testimonies was from one of the released detainees - who accompanied the martyr Muhammad Musa in Rimon prison - about the serious effects that the disease had on the health of the detainees, and how the prison administration described the section in which the prisoner was located as a "zombie", due to what the disease had left on their bodies. The first photos after the release of the detainees showed how their appearance had changed as a result of the systematic crimes committed against them by the occupation, specifically medical crimes and the crime of starvation, in addition to the basis of these crimes, which is the crime of torture. It is noteworthy that in exchange for these releases, the occupation continues its daily arrest campaigns, accompanied by serious and dangerous violations. The number of arrests in the West Bank after October 7, 2023, reached more than 11,300 cases, and thousands of citizens from the Gaza Strip. Source: Maan News Agency