RAMALLAH (PIC)– Israeli prisons authority keeps delaying a much needed kidney transplant operation badly needed by a Palestinian captive serving a life sentence in Israeli occupation jails according to human rights sources.
Ahmad al-Tamimi 46 suffers from kidney failure and has to go on a dialysis machine three times a week and despite the fact of the availability of a donor for the past four years the Israeli prisons authority keeps putting off the life saving operation.
The captive’s nephew volunteered to donate one of his kidneys to his uncle in 2003 and carried out all the necessary medical tests. Four years on and the occupation prisons authority is procrastinating.
The Israeli human rights organization Physicians for Human Rights has tried to pressure the prisons authority to allow the operation to go ahead but has so far failed and despite taking legal action in 2005 the organization still has no ruling from Israeli courts.
