JENIN (PIC)– Relatives of Yasser Nazzal held in Israeli occupation jails have called for his immediate release after being denied badly needed medical treatment in captivity.
The relatives along with the prisoner’s committee expressed absolute concern over the life of Nazzal who is suffering a serious medical condition. The committee in a statement appealed to the human rights and international organizations to pressure the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) to extend urgent treatment to him.
It said that the IPA transferred Nazzal from Megiddo jail to Shatta jail and refused his request to be held for treatment in Ramle prison hospital.
The committee said that Nazzal who has been held in custody for more than a year suffers chronic inflammation in the chest and lung deficiency. He was under intensified medical care before his arrest.
The IPA refused all requests by Yasser and his lawyer to allow entry of medicine for his case and even refused to allow a medical committee to check his condition the committee said.
Relatives of the detainee asked the Red Cross to follow up his case and to press the IPA to allow his medication especially when reports from the jail affirmed that his health condition was very bad.
