Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
The Palestinian National Council called on the international community to put pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to stop their violations of the right of Palestinian prisoners in their detention centers and to immediately intervene to release the prisoner Maher Al-Akhras, who has been on hunger strike for 74 days.
The Council affirmed in a statement carried by Wafa Agency today that the dumb prisoner suffers from serious health conditions threatening his life as a result of the policy of deliberate medical negligence pursued by the occupation authorities against him and the right of all prisoners, indicating that the occupation authorities violate all international controls and standards in the treatment of Palestinian prisoners that are stipulated in all agreements. And related treaties.
About 4,500 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons face harsh detention conditions, as 1,800 of them suffer from multiple diseases due to the spread of epidemics and germs, and among them about 700 prisoners need urgent treatment, especially cases of cancer, kidney failure and paraplegia.