Israel experiments on thousands of Palestinian detainees
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IOA turns Palestinian prisoners into experiment fields for new medicines
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GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian legal expert Abdul Nasser Farwana has accused the Israeli occupation authority of turning thousands of Palestinian prisoners into experiment fields for their new drugs in clear and flagrant violation of human rights and international conventions on prisoners. According to Farwana, who is the director of the statistics department at the PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners, majority of the captives are suffering different kinds of sicknesses due to the harsh incarceration conditions and the IOA deliberate medical neglect. Tens of Palestinian detainees died in Israeli prisons at least 46 of them due to medical neglect over the past four decades, Farwana affirmed based on the records of his department. Tens years ago, Israeli parliament speaker Dalia Itzik, who was then the chairwoman of the parliamentary science committee in the Knesset (parliament), had unveiled that at least 1,000 medical experiments were carried out on Palestinian prisoners annually Farwana added. He also accused the Israeli health ministry of issuing permits for carrying out more experiments on the Palestinian captives although they were internationally-forbidden. "Such revelations reflect the high-degree of Israeli racism that violates human rights and human dignity" asserted Farwana. Tens of thousands of Palestinian people were sent into Israeli jails over the past few decades, at least 11,000 of them are still languishing in those jails under inhuman conditions. International laws and conventions, including the Geneva Fourth convention among other covenants, urge countries to deal with prisoners in a humanistic manner, and not to expose them to danger. Israel defied those laws and never abided by them as far as the Palestinian captives are concerned. The Nazis were the first to use such kind of experiments, especially on POWs, resulting in the death of many of them. The Palestinian official also warned that even Palestinian ex-prisoners were still suffering of a number of diseases as a result of those prohibited experiments carried out on them, calling for an annual check up of those ex-prisoners so as to ensure they were not suffering of chronic diseases. |
This is a messy article.
It talks about medical neglect at the same time as it talks about medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners.
The alleged legal expert does not attempt to quantify the prisoners according to legal principles, i.e. how many of them were "arrested" by Israeli authorities in regions where they hold no legal authority, how many had ever seen a judge etc.
With so many breaches of the rights of Palestinians one would expect to get quite a number of hits by Google'ing his name, but that is not so.
There appears to be a head of statistics of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees of that name, but that cannot be verified.
I cannot find information that links Ms. Itzik to medical trials on Palestinian prisoners, only a case pertaining to protection of patients' rights in general.
We need more information to verify or dismiss this story. If we just accept it as it has been served to us the Israeli propaganda may turn around and attack us for being anti-semitic.
This may very well be an Israeli experiment - an experiment of deception!
Having said that we have good reasons to be suspicious, i.a. because of the Ringworm crime which targeted the Jewish immigrants from Africa and not Palestinians.
many thanks for pointing it out, MB.
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I agree, it is a very messy article.
The point remains solid that Israel is experimenting on Palestinian prisoners which is illegal according to world standards.
One statement made by the author was truly out of ignorance, and I would like to correct here:
Nazi's were not the first to experiment on prisoners. It's well known that the Bolsheviks (Gulags), started experimenting on prisoners at least a decade prior to the Nazi's.
Besides, the Nazi regime was made up of nearly all Jews anyhow. What a wicked web we weave, when we practice to decieve.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to
say it"...Voltaire