Palestine National Council (PNC) mourned the martyr Kamal Abu Wa'ar (46 years old), who died this evening in the Israeli occupation prisons, due to the policy of deliberate medical negligence pursued by the occupation authorities.
In a press statement, issued by the Speaker Mr. Saleem Al-Za’anoon, today Tuesday, PNC confirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities refused to release Mr. Abu Wa'ar even though he was suffering from an advanced laryngeal cancer case, in addition to being infected with the Coronavirus, and depriving him of access to appropriate health treatment and leaving the prisoner suffering pain and torment.
The martyr prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’ar was receiving chemotherapy while he was handcuffed, in a sadistic scene which was not witnessed even by the Nazis - in the Second World War - in the treatment of the resistance prisoners.
Israeli occupation authorities are committing a war crime by deliberately practicing medical negligence against Palestinian prisoners, and not providing them with the necessary health conditions and medical care stipulated in Articles (30, 31, 32) of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, PNC added, and pointed out that due to the policy of willful medical negligence and the failure of Israel - the occupying power - to abide by the provisions of this agreement and the additional protocol attached thereto, about (70) Palestinian prisoners have been died, out of (226) prisoners who have been died in the occupation prisons since 1967.
PNC warned of the danger to the lives of about (300) prisoners suffering from chronic diseases while they are in extreme danger, and are vulnerable to infection with the Coronavirus, which requires rapid action to save their lives and release them.
PNC pointed out that despite the spread of the Corona pandemic, the Israeli Prisons Administration did not take the necessary health measures to protect the Palestinian prisoners, as about 90 prisoners have so far been infected, which raises the level of fear of contagion to reach about 4,500 other prisoners.
PNC affirmed the duty of regional and international human and human rights institutions and parliaments of the world to assume their legal, humanitarian and moral responsibilities towards these prisoners, holding the Israeli occupation fully responsible for their lives, calling on the high signatories of the Third Geneva Convention to take urgent action to oblige the Israeli occupation to the Convention provisions towards these prisoners.