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Researcher says scabies outbreak among jailed women is deliberate mistreatment.
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Riad al-Ashqar, director of the Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies, told Shehab Wire that a scabies outbreak affecting detainees at Damoun prison was an inevitable consequence of conditions inside the facility. He pointed to absent sanitation standards, severe water shortages, and a complete lack of preventive health measures as prisoners moved between different sections of the jail.
Al-Ashqar characterized the outbreak as an expected and deliberate measure designed to intensify the abuse and mistreatment of the detained women. He framed the infection not as an accident but as part of a systematic approach to compound the suffering of female prisoners held there.
