The Prisoners Club said that data coming from Megiddo prison warns of a health disaster due to the continued spread of scabies, in addition to other data indicating the spread of other infectious diseases.

The Prisoners Club explained in a statement on Wednesday that, according to testimonies of released detainees and visits from lawyers, the serious health conditions that affected the Megiddo detainees also included children, among whom was the martyr Walid Ahmed, who was martyred as a result of being exposed to a medical crime. He is among hundreds of detained children distributed across three central detention centers, including Megiddo, in addition to the Ofer and Damon detainees, where they face the same conditions.

Based on testimonies from children recently released from Megiddo Prison, they confirmed that the majority of the children suffer from health problems and face difficult and tragic detention conditions.

The Prisoners' Club continued, saying that the detention system deliberately deprives detainees, including children and women, of the factors that could contribute to limiting the spread of disease, including (quality of food, stopping the crime of starvation, providing clothing and personal hygiene items, and exposure to adequate light and ventilation), as the complete lack of these factors leads to the spread of diseases, specifically (scabies).

It explained that illness and medical crimes, through the total denial of treatment, have become the most prominent tool for killing detainees, in addition to the crime of torture and the acts of abuse and humiliation that are carried out against them on a momentary basis.

It pointed out that the continued spread of disease among detainees, and their denial of medical treatment, will inevitably lead to the deaths of more of them. This, coupled with the array of crimes and systematic policies imposed on them by the detention system in a manner unprecedented since the genocide, constitutes yet another aspect of genocide.

The Prisoners' Club held the occupation forces fully responsible for the fate of thousands of detainees, reiterating its call for the international human rights community to end its impotence in the face of the ongoing genocide and crimes against detainees in Israeli prisons and camps.

It called on the World Health Organization to urgently intervene regarding the systematic medical crimes being perpetrated against detainees in an unprecedented manner.

It is noteworthy that since the beginning of the genocide, (63) detainees have been martyred in the occupation’s prisons, and they are the only ones whose identities are known, while dozens of martyrs are still subject to the crime of enforced disappearance.