More than half the prisoners in 'Ofer' infected with Covid-19
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The Palestinian Prisoners Club confirms that more than half of the prisoners inside "Ofer" Prison are Corona positive and the occupation is using the pandemic as a tool for abuse.
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Prisoners in Ofer prison are infected with Covid-19.
Today, Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed that more than half of the prisoners inside the Israeli "Ofer" prison are infected with the Coronavirus and the sections lack the necessary preventive measures. An estimated 1,000 prisoners are in "Ofer" Prison, divided into 12 sections.
The Club clarified that the virus is spreading in all sections and that the occupation prisons administration worked to turn the epidemic into a tool of abuse by establishing several exceptional measures and depriving prisoners of their rights under the pretext of curbing the spread of the epidemic.
It also pointed out that the occupation prisons administration's policy to withhold information related to prisoners and detainees, in addition to the negligence in examining the prisoners, has led to the inability of any human rights or official body to count the number of people infected since it first spread.
Moreover, the Prisoners Club had previously reported that more than 100 prisoners had been infected with the Coronavirus in Section 22 inside "Ofer" Prison.
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Last November, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al-Kila appealed to the international community and human rights and legal institutions to take immediate and urgent action to protect prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons, noting that the occupation does not care about the prisoner's health and deliberately neglects them.
The director of the Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners, Allam Kaabi, stated that the occupation deliberately delays conducting coronavirus tests for prisoners, and also deliberately delays in announcing the results of the tests, which increases the number of infected cases inside the prison.
Kaabi added that rooms for medical isolation are not suitable for the infected prisoners, and there is no health follow-up for prisoners who have been diagnosed with the Coronavirus. He noted that the elderly and ill prisoners are at risk with the spread of the pandemic among the prisoners.
