The health condition of Palestinian cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid has considerably deteriorated and reached a life-threatening stage after he underwent recently cycles of chemotherapy according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs on Tuesday.

The Commission’s lawyer Kareem Ajwa said that prisoner Abu Hamid suffers from severe anemia as a result of the cancer and its treatment.

The prisoner is also unable to walk breathe or talk and lost about 52 kilos of his weight as a result of his health condition so he is using a wheelchair and an oxygen cylinder according to lawyer Ajwa.

The Commission held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the life of Abu Hamid and appealed to the international community to immediately intervene to have him released.

Abu Hamid a resident of al-Am’ari refugee camp in Ramallah has been in jail since 2002 serving seven life sentences and an additional 50 years. He has four brothers in jail who are also serving life sentences.

The cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid is still unable to control or move his legs as he uses a wheelchair to move around the Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed on Thursday.

Abu Hamid needs permanent assistance in his daily living activities the PPS added.

However he is still conscious and aware of what is going on around him.

The PPS quoted Abu Hamid’s lawyer as saying that Abu Hamid is calling on all official and rights parties to pressure for his release.

Earlier Wednesday the seriously ill prisoner was moved back to Ramla prison clinic from Barzilai hospital despite his difficult health situation.

Abu Hamid who has been in prison since 2002 has lung cancer and recently started to take doses of chemotherapy after long Israeli procrastination and deliberate medical neglect.

He began to fall ill in August with chest pain. Doctors found and removed a lung tumor.

The prisoner was moved back to Israel’s Ashkelon jail where his condition worsened after his access to chemotherapy was deliberately delayed more than once.

Abu Hamid is one of five brothers from the same family handed life sentences by Israel. A sixth brother from the same family was killed by Israeli occupation forces.

Over 700 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails in dire need of medical attention 170 of whom are in critical condition.