The Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission on Sunday raised alarm bells over the deteriorating health condition of Palestinian prisoner Mousa Soufan sentenced to life in Israeli jails.
The Prisoners’ Commission said the health status of Soufan held in Nafha desert jail has seen a turn for the worse as a result of a cancer infecting his lung. Medics said the detainee needs an urgent surgery to remove his lung.
Soufan sentenced to life and 13 years in Israeli prisons had one of his lungs exploded during a hunger strike he started last April. The detainee has undergone several medical check-ups but the occupation authorities have kept withholding the results.
The Prisoners’ Commission held the Israeli prison authorities and medics responsible for Soufan’s health deterioration which it said is both a result and a sign of Israel’s crime of medical neglect.
Prisoner Soufan a native of the West Bank province of Tulkarem has been locked up for over three years in solitary confinement.
