Hamas condemns Israeli regime for systematic killing of Palestinian prisoners

The message by Hamas resistance movement was issued after a Palestinian woman succumbed to her injuries sustained during her arrest and while in Israeli prison.

Wafa Jarrar, 50, was arrested by Israeli forces during a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in May.
The Prisoners Affairs Authority and Palestinian Prisoners Society have accused the Israeli authorities for her ‘brutal arrest’ during which she was ‘severely beaten and injured’, leading to amputation of her legs.

Jarrar, the wife of a Hamas leader in the occupied West Bank, was transferred to the Afula Hospital, and thereafter placed under administrative detention for four months. She was released on May 30 but continued to suffer from her injuries.

The prisoner organizations said that Israeli authorities have also not responded to the request for her medical reports and to clarify what happened from May 27 – the day she underwent below-knee amputation, “to the subsequent above-knee amputation performed without her family’s consent, as she was under anesthesia and on a ventilator.”

After the deterioration of her health condition, Israeli occupation authorities released her to evade responsibility for her treatment in Israeli hospitals.

The organizations held the occupation fully responsible for Jarrar’s death and said she was one of dozens of detainees who had been subjected to systematic medical crimes since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

Hours after her death, Israeli authorities extended her husband’s administrative detention for a further six months.