The health condition of the 100 prisoners infected with the Coronavirus in the Israeli detentions of "Gilboa" and "Raymond" has not been clear, in light of the refusal of the Israeli prison administration to allow the entry of a Palestinian medical delegation to treat them.

The Israeli prison authorities have not taken measures to ensure the provision of the healthcare and hygiene needs of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, which led to the spread of the virus infection rapidly and the number of infected detainees reached to 100.

The head of the Prisoners' Affairs and Executives Authority, Qadri Abu Bakr, revealed to SAFA that a delegation of International Red Cross doctors visited the infected prisoners in Gilboa (Section 3) and Raymond (Section 1) on Thursday to test their conditions closely.

Abu Bakr said: “There are 90 prisoners quarantined in Gilboa Prison (Section 3), and 10 prisoners were transferred to a quarantine place in Raymond Prison (Section 1). We submitted a request to allow a Palestinian medical delegation to enter the prison to test and follow up the condition of the infected prisoners, but we did not receive a response. At the same time, we expect a rejection from the occupation prison administration to our request. "

About the conditions of the prisoners, Abu Bakr replied: "They are still as they are. They do not receive any kind of medicine, but only a daily lemon and a pill of aspirin. A survey has been conducted for other sections of the prison, and no new infections have been detected."

Medical specialists warned against the Israeli use for vaccines and virus-specific drugs, whose success has not yet been announced, on prisoners.

The former Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Wasfi Qabha, said that there are suspicions that Israel uses Palestinian prisoners as fields for dangerous drug experiments. This explains the increase in the percentage of infected prisoners and ex-detainees.

He explained that this matter evokes an incident happened in 1995 when the Israeli Minister of Health was questioned in the Knesset about the Ministry’s permission for Israeli security agencies and pharmaceutical companies to test dangerous drug trials on prisoners.

"At the time, a statement was transmitted by the Parliamentary Science Committee in the Knesset, which said that there are private pharmaceutical companies granted permits to test experiments on prisoners. Until 1997, they conducted five thousand experiments, and carried out a thousand experiments annually," he addad.

He continued, "when we actually test on a number of prisoners who were martyred after their release from prison a few months as a result of diseases such as cancer that afflicted them in families, this confirms that the occupation uses the prisoners as experimental fields for dangerous drugs, and it might also be the reason of the virus spread among the prisoners."