The head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, said – in an interview with Tel Aviv Tribune – that he lived with the rest of the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons in extremely harsh conditions, but their morale remained high.
Al-Dweik spoke about the difficult conditions of the prisoners inside the occupation prisons, and said that the prisoner experiences complete hunger for 24 hours, and food is only available to him in quantities that can be sufficient for small children, small pieces of bread, and rice is served in 3 or 4 spoons per prisoner, and it is immature. But only boiled, so much so that the prisoners call it “marzaz rice.”
He added that 5 days before his release, 35 immature white beans arrived in the room he was in, and each prisoner’s share was 3 and a half beans.
He said that the Palestinian prisoner suffers from the most basic components of human life, and faces continuous pressures that increase day after day, in order to exhaust him. He pointed out that the deprivation of medicine continues, and if the prisoner asks for a pill, they say to him, “Let the resistance in Gaza bring it to you.”
As a result of the harsh conditions and deliberate malnutrition, each prisoner lost an average of 30 kilograms of weight, said Al-Dweik, who appealed to all human rights, international and health organizations to provide support to the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons who are deprived of all their rights, which contradicts international laws and human rights conventions during the period. Wars and conflicts.
The President of the Palestinian Legislative Council thanked Tel Aviv Tribune because, as he said, it had the merit of conveying the truth to the prisoners inside the prisons, and he stated that the news reaches them through the lawyers and the new detainees.
Last Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities released the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who had been detained for 9 months, at the Al-Dhaheriya military checkpoint in the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that Al-Dweik suffers from very difficult health conditions in the Negev prison in southern Israel and does not receive appropriate medical treatment.
Al-Dweik (75 years old) was arrested on October 17, as part of administrative detention, which comes under an Israeli military order under the pretext of the existence of what the occupation calls a “security threat” without an indictment, and extends to 6 months, which can be extended.