RAMALLAH, November 4, 2015 (WAFA) – A 17-year-old Palestinian detainee incarcerated in Israeli jails had his leg amputated as a result of severe injuries he sustained in early October after he was shot by Israeli settlers, revealed an official.
WAFA reported Chairman of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees committee ‘Issa Qaraqe‘ as saying that Jalal Sharawna, 17, had his right leg amputated at Assaf Harofeh hospital in Israel.
Prior to his detention, Jalal suffered severe injuries in his right leg after he was shot and injured by Israeli settlers’ gunfire during clashes in the Hebron town of Dura.
Since his detention, Jalal reportedly underwent several surgeries to remove the bullets from his leg before it rotted, resulting in its amputation.
This came a day after the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC) said in a press release that Jalal underwent leg amputation as a result of intentional medical negligence and misinformation about his medical condition by Israeli Prison Service.
PPC explained that the Israeli Prison Service had been intentionally transferring Palestinian detainees, including Jalal, from hospitals back to jails before completing their medical treatments.
PPC indicated that the premature transferring of Jalal, who needed to receive ongoing medical treatment, caused his health condition to deteriorate and his right leg to be amputated.
PPC also explained that Jalal’s health condition deteriorated after he was discharged prematurely from Soroka hospital and transferred to Ramla Prison clinic.
Israeli authorities also arrested, Wednesday, three Palestinian youth from the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah while crossing crossing the borders on the way back from Jordan.
According to official sources, the detainees were identified as 21-year-old Baha, 22-year-old Udai and 19-year-old Wisam al-Tamimi. However the reasons behind their detention remain unknown.
The number of young Palestinians who were detained by the Israeli army from Nabi Saleh hiked up to 20.
In another incident in Jenin Israeli sraeli forces, Wednesday afternoon, physically assaulted a Palestinian cameraman and confiscated his filming equipment near al-Jalama military checkpoint, north of Jenin.
WAFA reported on Muhammad Badarneh, who works as a reporter with Palestine TV station, as saying that while he and his colleague, Sakhr Zawatiya, who works as a cameraman, were about one kilometer far from al-Jalama checkpoint getting ready to film a report, Israeli forces assaulted them.
Badarneh and his colleague were working on a report documenting current situation of agriculture in the northern West Bank district of Jenin and conditions of Palestinian workers following the closure of the checkpoint.
Israeli soldiers reportedly assaulted Zawatiya using the butts of their riffles, shouted obscenities at him, and detained the crew for over half an hour.
They also seized two video tapes and the camera stand before threatening the crew to beat them up if they approach the checkpoint.
Badarneh noted that they have filed a complaint to the Palestinian military liaison and Joint Operations Room.
