Ramallah - Saba:
The Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club revealed new details about the case of the martyrdom of the detainee Moataz Abu Zneid (35 years old) from Dura, south of Hebron, who passed away the day before yesterday in the Zionist Soroka Hospital, and according to his family, he did not suffer from any health problems.
The Prisoners' Authority explained, based on the testimony of one of the prisoners who were with the detainee Abu Zneid in the (currently Rimon-Ganot) prison, that the martyr began suffering from scabies several months ago, and with the passage of time and the refusal of the prison administration to provide him with treatment, scabies turned into boils with a very bad smell, and swelling began to appear in the extremities, with a sharp loss in weight, and his health continued to deteriorate until he lost the ability to eat, stand, and relieve himself.
He continued in his testimony: “Parts of his skin began to fall onto his bed, and we kept asking the administration many times to transfer him to the hospital, without response. On January 4, he lost consciousness, and two days later he was transferred to the hospital, and then we learned that he had entered a coma.”
The Commission and the Prisoners Club confirmed, in a joint statement, that what happened with the detainee Abu Zneid was a systematic medical crime, the aim of which was to liquidate the detainee Abu Zneid, as happened with dozens of detainees, who have ascended since the beginning of the war of extermination, numbering (55), and only their identities are known.
They pointed out that the case of the detainee Abu Zneid is not the only case that is being liquidated through systematic medical crimes, including the prison administration’s deliberate provision of factors for the spread of the disease (scabies) among the prisoners, and the prison system’s deliberate failure to provide cleanliness and ventilation, and deliberate withdrawal of clothes from the prisoners, and depriving them of the simplest cleaning tools, as well as the weak immunity that affected the vast majority of them due to the crime of starvation, all of which contributed to the exacerbation of the disease with many prisoners. They recalled the case of the martyr Muhammad Munir Musa from Bethlehem who was martyred in October 2024. He was suffering from diabetes, and after contracting scabies, his health condition worsened, leading to his martyrdom. There is other information about some of the detainees from Gaza who were recently martyred, indicating that scabies were a major cause of their martyrdom.
They pointed out that scabies have not stopped spreading in prisons to this day, and there were dozens of testimonies from prisoners who were infected with the disease. These testimonies reflected how the prison system turned the disease into a tool to torture and kill them.
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