{"id":15709,"date":"2020-07-13T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15709"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:05:58","slug":"covid-19-sickens-palestinian-detainee-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15709","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 sickens Palestinian detainee in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAMALLAH, Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian detainee in Israel has contracted corona virus, according to the Commission of Palestinian Affairs on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the commission said Kamal Abu Wa\u2019er, 46, was diagnosed with the virus, blaming the Israeli policy of \u201cmedical negligence\u201d for his illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli &#8220;policy of deliberate and systematic medical negligence has made [Palestinian] detainees vulnerable to the coronavirus and other epidemics and diseases which threaten their lives,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Abu Wa\u2019er, from the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, suffers from a throat cancer and is now treated at the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Wa&#8217;er was detained in 2003 and is serving a lifetime in prison.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Israeli prison authorities said a detainee tested positive for COVID-19, without giving further details about his identity.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian authorities estimate that over 5,500 Palestinians are currently languishing in prisons located throughout Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine A Palestinian detainee in Israel has contracted corona virus, according to the Commission of Palestinian Affairs on Sunday. In a statement, the commission said Kamal Abu Wa\u2019er, 46, was diagnosed with the virus, blaming the Israeli policy of \u201cmedical negligence\u201d for his illness. The Israeli &#8220;policy of deliberate and systematic medical negligence has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions\/15711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}