P.A. Denounces Israel for Testing Different Drugs With Palestinian Prisoners

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A chaque jour sa peine,

Aujourd’hui, comme chaque jour depuis plus de 63 ans, et même plus, une information quotidienne, originaire d’horizons trés diversifiés, nous est communiquée dénonçant l’abomination des pratiques des gouvernements successifs et d’une armée israélienne, indigne de son uniforme et qui, à quelques trés rares exceptions près croupissant dans les géôles de la 1ère démocratie du Proche-Orient, exerce, sans la moindre retenue, les pires sévices envers un peuple occupé, humilié, torturé, piétiné bien que plus que jamais debout et maintenant servant de cobayes à de nouveaux Mengele.

Comment nos responsables politiques, économiques ou industriels, tous au fait de ces crimes, osons le mot, peuvent-ils encore se commettre avec de tels dirigeants, leur serrer une main sanguinolente du sang des autres, voire les serrer contre leur poitrine sur des perrons ministériels ou elyséens ?

La nausée qui en découle nous fait, plus encore ,nous précipiter vers le premier libraire venu pour y acheter pour le prix d’un tiers de paquet de cigarettes le dernier petit livre de Stéphane Hessel, intitulé « Indignez-vous ! » Apparement, ce cri de ralliement convient tout à fait à nos concitoyen(ne)s car il est en tête de toutes les ventes depuis quelques jours.

Michel Flament

Coordinateur

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December 07, 2010 - IMEMC

On Monday, the Prisoner Affairs specialist of the Palestinian Authority, and former prisoner, Abdul Nasir Farawneh reported that Israel uses Palestinian prisoners to test the effects of different drugs, through the experimental medicine.

Through a statement from Algeria, Farawneh echoed the recent report « Palestinian Prisoners and Israeli Medical Experimentation : More than 5,000 Experiments Run Annually, » that was published by the Algeria Forum.

According to Farawneh, the Israeli Ministry of Health has increased its annual contribution to the experimental medicine by 15% since this practice was approved by the Knesset in 1997 and, in his opinion, this type of medicine is mostly practiced in jails.

« Steadily, more prisoners are being exposed to these treatments, increasing the number of sick prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons and emerging new and strange diseases. »

Therefore, the majority of Palestinian detainees face serious health problems. About 1,500 prisoners need emergency treatment and others die due to dangerous illnesses, Farawneh stated.

He also gave the example of the approximately 3,000 Palestinian prisoners in the Nafaha, Raymond, and Negev jails, 45% of the total, are subjected to group drug testing. Furthermore, prisoners in the Negev jails, who are exposed to harmful toxins as a result of the nearby Dimona nuclear reactor.

Farawneh made it clear that to stop these practices, it is necessary to call upon the World Health Organization to pressure Israel to treat the Palestinian prisoners with dignity and not like « guinea pigs. » He also asked that the freed prisoners should have periodic medical checks to control the possible effects that the experimental medicine could have on them.

This is not the first time time alleged abuses of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons has surfaced. In 2009, the Cairo-based Sawasiya Center for Human Rights released a report in which it claimed that several Palestinian prisoners were blinded due to the medical experimentation in Israeli prisons.