Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls to call upon the Attorney general and the Ministry of Health to withdraw their support of the proposed amendment to the law: “Amendment to the Prisons Act (Preventing Damages due to Hunger Strikes), 2013.”
According to PHR, this proposed amendment incorporates significant violations of human rights and medical ethics; it provides a legislative foundation for torture by permitting and providing for the enforced feeding and treatment of the hunger strikers; it makes ill use of medicine and of physicians in order to achieve a political-security and public image advantage; and it is in direct violation of the Patient’s Rights Act and of international declarations and treaties.
Related:
http://www.phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=116&ItemID=1885