Yesterday, the Palestinian government announced three villages in the West Bank, areas that were infected with the emerging coronavirus, at a time when the total number of Palestinians infected with the virus increased to 246 cases, including 40 children.
The Director of Primary Care at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Kamal Al-Shakhra, said during the daily briefing in Ramallah that the villages of Qatana and Bedouin, adjacent to Jerusalem and our home in West Ramallah, have become areas infested with the Corona virus, and its residents must not go out to the streets, and reported nine new infections With the virus during the last hours, explaining that all the infected cases are stable, except for four cases that were entered into intensive care.
For his part, government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem said that 40 children infected with the Corona virus out of the total number of infections in the Palestinian territories.
The spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency Nabil Abu Rudeina announced yesterday evening that President Mahmoud Abbas issued a special pardon for the remaining penalty of 125 convicted persons in Palestinian rehabilitation and reform centers to limit the spread of the Corona virus.
For his part, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, warned of the gravity of the conditions faced by about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons in light of the outbreak of the Corona virus, in Israel, pointing out that among them are a large number of the elderly, the sick and those with immunity. Substandard, the most vulnerable and vulnerable groups facing the virus.
In a written message addressed to the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Robert Mardini, regarding the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons in light of the danger of the spread of the Corona epidemic, Aboul Gheit pointed to the dangerous conditions that the prisoners are exposed to, including the absence of specialized doctors and medical devices to assist patients, In addition, the places of detention lack good ventilation, and the severe shortage of cleaning and other essential materials.
He expressed regret that Israel had decided to release some criminal prisoners from its citizens, while excluding Palestinian prisoners, pointing out that this is contrary to humanitarian standards, and the rules of international law stipulated in the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Prisoners' Rights at the time of the spread of epidemics.
On the behalf of thousands of Palestinian prisoners and their families, Abul-Gheit appealed to the Director General of the Red Cross to do everything in his power to get the Israeli government to review its positions and policies on this matter, and to take an immediate decision to launch payments from the prisoners most at risk, in order to avoid a catastrophic humanitarian catastrophe, stressing that the situation The present requires everyone to take humanitarian considerations above all else.
It is noteworthy that the official data of the Israeli occupation government reported yesterday that the number of deaths caused by the Corona virus rose to 51 cases, and the total number of infections exceeded 8,611 cases.
Abul-Gheit warns of the danger of "Corona" against Palestinian prisoners, and calls for the release of those most at risk.
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HIV infection in Israel .. 51 deaths.