The Palestinian Prisoner's Club issued strong warnings about a rapid and dangerous wave of 'scabies' disease sweeping through prisoner sections in Israeli occupation prisons, confirming that the prison service deliberately uses the disease as a tool of physical and psychological torture. The club clarified in a statement that the Israeli system adopts medical crimes as a systematic policy of slow killing, which has led to the death of 89 prisoners since the start of the current aggression, with infectious diseases and medical negligence being among the primary causes of their deaths.
Recent legal visits by lawyers revealed shocking levels of health deterioration within the detention centers, where rooms have turned into infested environments lacking the most basic human living conditions. This deterioration is due to severe overcrowding and a lack of general hygiene, in addition to depriving prisoners of natural ventilation and sunlight, and forcing them to wear wet clothes for long periods, which has contributed to turning prisons into hotbeds for the spread of skin epidemics.
Field data indicates that the infection is spreading terrifyingly, with at least three infected individuals in an advanced stage of the disease recorded in every room housing eight prisoners. The widest outbreak is concentrated in 'Ofer', 'Megiddo', 'Naqab', and 'Jalameh' prisons, which are experiencing the highest levels of overcrowding and violations, amid a complete absence of any preventive or therapeutic measures by the prison administration, which merely monitors without real medical intervention.
The statement described the symptoms suffered by the prisoners as very severe, with boils, ulcers, and acute inflammations appearing on their bodies, causing intense itching that prevents them from sleeping or resting. Human rights sources confirmed that a number of prisoners have completely lost the ability to move for more than five months as a result of the worsening skin infections reaching critical stages, amid their deliberate deprivation of essential medicines and medical supplies.
In a step aimed at obscuring the extent of the health catastrophe, the prison administration canceled all lawyers' visits to infected prisoners, which hinders the documentation of cases and the communication of their suffering to the world. Accordingly, the Prisoner's Club issued urgent appeals to the World Health Organization and relevant international institutions, demanding immediate intervention to save the lives of prisoners and hold the occupation authorities accountable for their ongoing medical crimes against detainees.
The occupation relies on medical crimes as a policy of slow killing, with 89 prisoners and detainees whose identities have been announced since the start of the war having died as a result of these policies.
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Prisoner's Club: Occupation uses 'scabies' as a tool of torture and slow killing against prisoners