GAZA (PIC)– Israeli prison authorities transferred on Thursday night detainee Mansour al-Shahatit from Dura in al-Khalil from a solitary confinement cell in Ramon prison to Soroka Hospital after his health seriously deteriorated.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies held the occupation prison authorities fully responsible for the deterioration of health condition of the patient captive as they have been refusing to provide him with necessary treatment.
The Center’s Media Director Riad al-Ashqar said that the prisoner suffers from heart problems and a broken leg as well as shortness of breath as he spent long period in the solitary confinement.
The prison administration accepted to move Shahatit to the hospital after prisoners’ protest. He was bleeding and fell unconscious as he was harshly attacked by the Israeli forces during his transfer to the hospital.
Ashqar said the prisoner Mansour al-Shahatit is exposed to slow death in the Israeli jails due to the deliberate medical neglect that exacerbated his illnesses.
Captive Shahatit was arrested on March 11 2003 and was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. He has been subjected to severe torture during the investigation which affected his health condition.
