The Commission of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners sounded the alarm on Wednesday over the exacerbated health condition of Palestinian prisoner Emad Saraj aged 38.
According to the Prisoners Commission Saraj a native of Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp and held in the Israeli Nafha desert jail has been enduring a critical psycho-physical condition and has lost his ability to speak.
The commission quoted prisoners at Nafha lock-up as stating that Saraja’s health has started to take a turn for the worse following his 41-day open-ended hunger strike held last April.
The detainees also spoke out against the systematic medical neglect perpetrated by the Israeli medics against Saraj all the way through his hunger strike adding that the detainee receives no treatments and has only been provided with pain relievers.
Nafha inmates threatened to step up protest moves in case the Israeli prison authorities keep dragging their feet as regards ongoing appeals to urgently provide Saraj with life-saving medical treatment.
They further launched distress signals over the dire detention conditions which they have been subjected to in Nafha prison.
Saraj was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from the West Bank in 2004. He was sentenced to a life-term and 30 years in jail.
At the same time 41-year-old Palestinian detainee Salah al-Khawaja from Ramallah’s western town of N’ilin has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the 10th consecutive day to protest his administrative detention with neither charge nor trial in Israeli jails.
