The Prisoners Club said in a statement, "Detainee Ahmed Hatem Khudairat (22 years old) from the town of Dhahiriya, south of Hebron (southern occupied West Bank), is facing a serious deterioration in his health, as a result of his suffering from chronic diabetes and his infection with scabies."
The club explained that "Khudeirat has been administratively detained since May 23, 2024, in the Negev prison. He suffers from recurrent cramps, in addition to suffering from severe hunger due to his diabetes and severe itching due to scabies."
Administrative detention is a detention order issued by Israeli military order, based on the pretext of a security threat, without indictment. It lasts for six months, subject to extension. The intelligence service presents a so-called secret file to the court, which neither the detainee nor the lawyer are permitted to review.
The Prisoners Club warned that "detainee Khdeirat is also suffering from a sharp weight loss, reaching 40 kilograms. According to what was reported by a lawyer who recently visited him (whom he did not name), he has been unable to get out of bed for two months."
He emphasized that "the case of detainee Khdeirat is one among thousands of sick prisoners in Israeli prisons," noting that "the spread of disease among prisoners is a central issue, given the prison administration's deliberate imposition of more policies and procedures aimed primarily at killing prisoners."
The Prisoners' Club held the Israeli Prison Service "fully responsible for the life of detainee Ahmad Khdeirat," and renewed its call for the international human rights community to "regain its necessary role in the face of the ongoing (Israeli) war of extermination and to end the systematic impotence that has afflicted the international community."
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