Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stressed that the Palestinians have been disabled for war crimes and Israeli violations (Al Jazeera - Archive)
Awad Rajoub - Ramallah
With the approach of the International Day of disabled people in the third month, according to statistical data and the sources of Palestinian rights that Israel and the continued targeting of disabled Palestinians murder, arrest, at a time when human rights activists, researchers confirmed the continued detention of dozens of disabled people in Israeli prisons under harsh conditions.
The prisoners' affairs specialist researcher Nasser Ferwana Palestinian detainees from the wounded and disabled patients to arbitrary measures, he said, adding that the occupation authorities repeatedly tried to extort confessions and Msawmthm to provide for their treatment, and apply pressure and torture them since their arrest.
Ferwana explains that some disabled prisoners were arrested and are suffering from physical disability or psychological or even paralysis of two quarters or halves, while some were arrested on their way to treatment and others were severely wounded while conducting operations against the occupation.
He said that some detainees Ferwana move wheelchairs and by the occupation authorities refused to respond to the calls of human rights organizations and health need to provide the necessary treatment for them as a prelude to their release and to save their lives.
He called Ferwana Palestinian and Arab parties directly related to the recent prisoner exchange deal to take action and pressure towards ensuring the inclusion of all patients, especially those with disabilities and those with special needs within the second phase of the transaction, which is supposed to be implemented during the next two weeks.
He cited the cases of Ferwana for a number of prisoners with disabilities, including captive bald agonist (42 years), suffering from a leg amputation in the left pane, and disruption of bone in the left leg.
The prisoner, Ahmed Asfour (23 years), who is suffering from amputation of the fingers of the right hand and the disruption of the movement in the left hand and the loss of part of the intestine and the injury of the right eye, and the prisoner's seat Ashraf Abu miserably (23 years), who suffers from physical disability cost him the ability to move, and captured Mansour lighted ( 43 years) and suffers from partial paralysis and uses a wheelchair.
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In turn, said the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights to disabled Palestinians were - like the rest of the civilian population of others - for war crimes and Israeli violations, pointing out that a number of disabled amputated members of their bodies after exposure to injury before or during the process of arrest, and that many of them had been subjected to operations blackmail and compromise on the treatment during the questioning and interrogation.
The number of Palestinian victims with disabilities since the beginning of the Intifada on September 29 / September 2000 and until today has risen to 89 with a disability, including 15 children and 7 females. While during the same period injured more than 105 disabled firearms used by the Israeli occupation.
According to human rights center, 45 prisoners are physically and mentally disabled are still languishing in the prisons of the occupation and the harsh living conditions under the health policy of medical neglect and poor conditions of detention in prisons, saying the martyrdom of two children with disabilities in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip.
He accused the Israeli authorities not to the center to make any effort, even if minimal, to avoid causing more casualties among Palestinian civilians in general, and especially those with disabilities.
PCHR calls upon the international community to put pressure on the occupation authorities to force it to stop all serious violations carried out against prisoners with disabilities, and provide immediate treatment and appropriate to them, and stop them in solitary confinement.
On the Palestinian level, confirmed the Palestinian suffering disabilities from a lack of severe and serious deterioration in the level of enjoyment of their rights in the light of the continued state of internal division, and the existence of two governments in two different in Gaza and Ramallah, and the absence of application of the provisions of the law of the rights of Disabled Palestinians, and irregular allocation of Social Affairs, and the lack of medical devices necessary for many of them.
Source: Al Jazeera