The Palestinian detainee Nisreen Abu Kmeil 46 said on Saturday that her health condition is deteriorating due to the deliberate medical neglect by the Israel Prison Service.
Abu Kmeil’s lawyer said that Nisreen announced a strike on 2 December and refused to take her blood pressure and diabetes medicines in protest at the unjustified delay in her treatment.
The Israel Prison Service responded to her demands and took her to the hospital on 3 December. When the doctor examined her he confirmed that her health condition was worsening because she was not receiving treatment.
If there is no improvement witnessed in Abu Kmeil’s health in the coming two weeks her toes will be amputated the lawyer said.
Moreover the lawyer added several months ago Abu Kmeil fell and broke her arm and because her arm was not splinted properly Israeli doctors broke it again a few days later damaging the main nerve in her arm.
The doctors decided 12 physiotherapy sessions for Abu Kmeil. She was transferred to Hasharon jail and only attended three sessions before she was returned to Damon jail. Abu Kmeil has been denied treatment ever since.
Abu Kmeil is from Haifa city in the 1948 occupied territories and she is married to a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip. Abu Kmeil was arrested in October 2015 at Erez crossing when the Israeli occupation authorities summoned her to sign papers related to her husband’s entry permit.
A mother of seven children the youngest of whom was seven months old when she was arrested Abu Kmeil was subjected to harsh interrogation and torture at Ashkelon jail during the first month of her detention.
Abu Kmeil has served three years of her six-year sentence. She has not seen any of her family members since she was detained because of the movement restrictions imposed on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and because they fear arbitrary arrest at Erez crossing.
