The Palestinian National Council (PNC) held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the killing of the prisoner Mr. Bassam Al-Sayeh, the martyr who suffered from cancer during his detention in the Israeli jails since 2015, until his death.

In a press statement, PNC affirmed that this crime adds to the series of Israeli crimes against Palestinian prisoners as a result of deliberate medical negligence against them, in flagrant violation of the health conditions and medical care of prisoners set forth in Articles (29-33) of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners in time of war, dated August 12, 1949, the violation led to the rise in the number of prisoners martyrs to (221) prisoners inside the prisons of the occupation since 1967.

The occupation violates the same agreement, which provided for the treatment of Palestinian prisoners of war, PNC added, and prohibited the detaining force (Israel) from transferring them out of the occupied territory (Palestine), and also prohibited "The Detaining Power to commit any unlawful act or omission which causes the death of a prisoner in its custody and is a grave breach of this Convention."

PNC called on international human rights and humanitarian organizations, especially the International Committee of the Red Cross, to open an investigation into the crimes of medical negligence against prisoners and to carry out their duties by pressuring the Israeli occupation to implement international and humanitarian conventions related to the protection of Palestinian prisoners, whom are about 6,000 prisoners, and treat them according to its provisions.

9th of Sep. 2019