Hundreds of Palestinians were infected with “scabies” inside an Israeli prison

Ramallah – Reuters Two Palestinian human rights organizations said on Monday that there is an outbreak of scabies, known as “scabies,” among Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Negev prison. The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the “Prisoner’s Club” stated in a joint statement that “among 35 detainees who were visited by lawyers in recent days, 25 of them were suffering from scabies.” The statement stated: “All those who were visited went out for the visit, while they were blindfolded and with their limbs tied. They were subjected to humiliation and abuse, through a humiliating dragging process carried out against them, and forced them to sit on their knees until they left the department.”