The Arab League calls "international criminal" To include intentional medical negligence against prisoners among the crimes of the occupation in Palestine
The League of Arab States called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to include the crime of intentional medical negligence against prisoners within the ongoing investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory, stressing its full support for the Palestinian people until the end of the occupation and the attainment of freedom and independence.
This came in a statement issued by the General Secretariat of the Arab League “Palestine Sector and the Occupied Arab Territories”, which condemned in the strongest terms The martyrdom of the young Palestinian prisoner Abd al-Rahman Sufyan Muhammad al-Sabatin, 21 years old. From the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, who died yesterday, Tuesday, in an Israeli hospital, after a serious deterioration in his health condition as a result of deliberate medical negligence and poor conditions of detention. and Palestinian detainees, in blatant violation of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.
It stated that the policy of deliberate medical negligence practiced by the occupation prison administration against thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including children, women and the sick, constitutes a form of slow killing and internationally prohibited torture.
The League of Arab States called on the international community and human rights and humanitarian organizations, most notably the International Committee of the Red Cross, to intervene urgently to put pressure on the occupation. To immediately release the martyr’s body and hand it over to his family.
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