Family of the 20-year-old cancer-stricken detainee Mohammed Salah ed-Din on Wednesday called for the immediate release of their son whose health has gravely worsened lately in Israeli jail.
The family said that they fear Mohammed’s life is at stake given the deliberate medical neglect he is subjected to by the Israel Prison Service.
They demanded that Mohammed be immediately released from Israeli jail and allowed proper medical treatment since only a few months are left in his two-year prison term.
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission held the Israel Prison Service fully responsible for Mohammed’s life and called for his unconditional release.
In its Wednesday’s report the commission also said that the Israel Prison Service has been keeping Palestinian detainee Mohammed Khirwat in solitary confinement for 130 days.
It warned that Khirwat who has been detained since 2002 and who is serving four life sentences in Israeli jail is being held in inhumane conditions that have adversely affected his health.
Solitary confinement is one of the punitive measures pursued by the Israel Prison Service to break the will of Palestinian prisoners humiliate them and torture them physically and psychologically.
