In response to a petition filed by human rights organizations, the Prison Service admitted that the scabies outbreak resulted in some prisoners’ meetings with their lawyers being cancelled and court hearings being postponed. The outbreak comes amid complaints by prisoners of generally inadequate medical care and extraordinary overcrowding in prisons because of the war
In response to a petition filed by human rights organizations, the Prison Service has admitted that about a quarter of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been infected with scabies in recent months. The petition, which will be heard by the High Court on Monday, states that the Prison Service has not taken the required actions to prevent the disease from spreading.