An-Najah News - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Prison Service demands to acts immediately to halt the spread of the virus and to protect Palestinian prisoners after reports indicating that 69 Palestinians held by Israel in just one prison have been infected with COVID-19. Adalah had filed an urgent petition to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding that Israeli authorities take all necessary actions to protect the 450 “security prisoners” being held in the overcrowded Gilboa prison from a COVID-19 outbreak.

On 23 July, the court ruled that Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons have no right to social distancing protection against the COVID-19.

1. Isolation bloc: Ensure that the wing in which the infected prisoners are living, designated as a medical isolation bloc, allows for the appropriate conditions to provide sufficient protection and care for prisoners.

Adalah also demanded IPS which possesses exclusive control over information related to developments in its prisons update its website in Arabic.