سياسة الإهمال الطبي تجاه المعتقلين الفلسطينيين في سجون الاحتلال الإسرائيلي من منظور القانون الدولي

Abstract EN

The Israeli occupation authorities' policy of medical negligence towards Palestinian detainees is one of the most serious crimes internationally, with the facts indicating that many of the sick detainees died as a result of deliberate medical negligence by the Prison Service.

The Israeli occupation authorities' policy of medical negligence towards Palestinian detainees is one of the most serious international crimes, and 2019 is the worst year for this type of violation of detainees' rights, as a result of that five detainees were martyred.

Some practices of deliberate medical negligence also amount to torture, particularly when it relates to the detainee's extortion to provide information or work for the prison.

Torture is a war crime according to article (8) of the Rome Charter establishing the International Criminal Court of 1998, and a crime against humanity according to article (7) of the same Charter, this requires that the criminals of the Israeli occupation entity be held accountable and prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for the crimes against Palestinian detainees.

The state of Palestine's accession to the International Criminal Court in April 2015 provided an important opportunity to redress the rights of Palestinian detainees, but Palestinian concern and anticipation is the master of the position towards the court's role in achieving this, particularly as it slows down in the transition to the criminal investigation phase of crimes that Committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinians.

Accordingly, to contribute to the realization of the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli occupation prisons, researchers called for the international community, especially the high parties that signed the Fourth Geneva Convention, to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and fulfill their obligations and pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to cease the policy of medical negligence against Palestinian detainees.

The researchers called for the State of Palestine and human rights institutions to submit a full legal memorandum on the policy of medical negligence in occupation prisons to the International Criminal Court as constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The researchers also called for the International Criminal Court to move to the investigate the crimes that was committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian detainees, primarily the policy of medical negligence.