The Palestinian government announced today, Wednesday, the diagnosis of a Palestinian prisoner who was infected with the new Corona virus, a day after his release from Israeli occupation prisons.

Among the 15 people who were infected with the Corona Virus, announced today, is a 19-year-old released prisoner of Ramallah, in a statement, government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem said.

Melhem clarified that the released prisoner had spent 16 days in two Israeli detention centers in Ramallah and Bethlehem, and it was proven that he was in contact with a number of prisoners without the Israeli Prison Administration taking samples from the released prisoners to ensure their safety.

For its part, the Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority in the Liberation Organization said that "a state of alert in the ranks of prisoners is currently being witnessed by (Ofer) prison after they learned of the diagnosis of infection with the released prisoner with the virus."

The Commission held Israel and the Prison Administration fully responsible for "this medical and immoral crime of not protecting Palestinian prisoners from the risk of this virus spreading, and not taking the necessary precautions."

Yesterday, the Palestine Liberation Organization called for international intervention to pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in its prisons in light of the threat of the Corona virus.

The Secretary of the Organization's Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, urged in his letters in this regard, to pressure Israel to respond to the demands and rights of the legitimate prisoners under international law, and to release the most vulnerable and the most affected.

The messages were addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the foreign ministers of the European Union, Russia, China and Britain, and to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The total number of people infected with Coronavirus in the Palestinian territories increased to 134 cases, by 122 cases in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and 12 in the Gaza Strip, while a woman’s death in the sixties was recorded, and 18 patients recovered.