Health conditions of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees in light of Israeli violations of international Humanitarian Law رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Prisoners and detainees are considered as the root of the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and the Israeli occupation, as they are the ones who sacrificed and pledged their lives for the sake of liberation from the restrictions of the occupation and its arbitrary practices against the Palestinian people. This study tried to recognize the obstacles and challenges that the Palestinian detainees face through their living in the Israeli prisons, starting from detain or arrest, passing through the investigation stage, ending with the stage of sentencing him and serving his sentence, until his release from prison and liberation from the shackles of captivity, whether this period took place after the end of the sentence imposed on him, or through a prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. The importance of the study comes as it highlights the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law related to Palestinian prisoners and detainees in general, and their health rights in particular, as all international charters and treaties emphasized the necessity of dealing with prisoners of war and detainees with respect, so that there is no insult to their dignity, and no use of methods of torture and threats to extract their confessions. Rather, they have every right to live in dignity, and to enjoy all their rights in prisons or in detention centers, whether by providing them with a safe healthy environment, or by providing food, clean water, clothes and medicines, and preparing an appropriate healthy environment with allocating doctors to monitor their health conditions, and treat them without shortening. In order to know the reality of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons, a group of previous studies issued by the official authorities and a number of researchers that concerned with the Palestinian issue were referred to, in VI addition to designing a questionnaire and distributing it to a group of released prisoners who are still under occupation, with the aim of surveying their opinions towards those violations committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian prisoners as living testimonies of that, in addition to conducting field interviews with a group of officials and official bodies that concerned with the affairs of the Palestinian prisoners.