Arab League warns against Israel’s disregard for lives of Palestinian prisoners

The Arab league has warned the Tel Aviv regime against “dangerous repercussions” of violating the very basic rights of hunger-striking prisoners and other Palestinian inmates languishing behind Israeli bars.

In a statement released on Sunday, Saeed Abu Ali, the bloc’s assistant secretary-general for Palestine and the occupied Arab territories, denounced the Israeli regime for constantly disregarding “the right to life and humanitarian legal standards” for Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails.

Israel must end unlawful and cruel policies such as “slow-death policy” towards Palestinian prisoners, the statement read.

Abu Ali called on international rights organizations “to exert more pressure on the Israeli authorities to comply with the provisions of international law”.

He also said that advocacy groups were closely monitoring the health condition of two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Ghadanfar Abu Atwan and Iyad Harbiyat.

The duo had stopped eating their food portions weeks ago and several groups continue to express serious concerns over their deteriorating health conditions.

Elsewhere in the statement, the official further held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for their lives.

Abu Atwan’s health condition has seriously deteriorated and is at risk of dying from malnutrition after 61 days of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention without charge or trial.

Harbiyat, who was detained in 2002 and sentenced to a lifetime in jail, suffers from a major deterioration in his health.

The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) keeps Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions lacking proper hygienic standards in Israeli jails.

Source: Press TV