The Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies has affirmed that 23 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails suffer from different types of cancer and medical neglect.
According to the Center many of these prisoners have the most serious cases of cancer and do not receive proper medical treatment such as prisoner Sami Abu Diyak 36 from Jenin and serving a life sentence who suffers from intestinal cancer and his health condition is getting worse.
The health condition of Abu Diyak reached a life-threatening stage and he could die any moment after doctors in the Israeli infirmary of the Ramla jail stopped providing him with chemotherapy at the pretext that his body was no longer responding to treatment and that his condition became hopeless spokesman for the Center Riyadh al-Ashqar warned.
Ashqar held the Israeli prison service fully responsible for the deterioration of Abu Diyak’s health after he underwent a failed surgical operation that led to complications in his intestines.
There are other prisoners who suffer from serious cancer conditions and other related health complication like prisoner Yasser Rabai’ah who suffers from intestinal cancer and prisoner Bassam as-Sayeh who suffers from blood and bone cancer.
Prisoner Mutasem Raddad also suffers from cancer and recently started to have heart problems bowel inflammation and anemia.
The Center appealed to international medical institutions the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders to necessarily visit those prisoners and work on forming committees to investigate the reasons that lead to an increase in the number of prisoners who suffer from cancer in Israeli jails.
