The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has warned that the health condition of Palestinian cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid has reached a critical and life-threatening stage.
According to lawyer of the Commission Kareem Ajwa Abu Hamid has received so far three courses of chemotherapy and will have another one in 10 days.
As a result of his worsening health suffering the prisoner is unable to walk and breathe so he is confined to a wheelchair and uses an oxygen cylinder all the time.
A few months ago the prisoner also suffered from a life-threatening health problem in his lungs but the Israeli prison service (IPS) delayed his transfer to the hospital and medically neglected his issue before deciding to take him to the hospital.
The Commission has held IPS fully responsible for the life of prisoner Abu Hamid and appealed to international organizations to intervene to have him released and put an end to his suffering.
Abu Hamid a 49-year-old from al-Am’ari refugee camp in Ramallah has been in jail since 2002 serving seven life sentences and an additional 50 years in prison. He has four brothers in jail who are also serving life sentences.
In a related context dozens of Palestinian children whose parents in Israeli jails handed Red Cross officials in Gaza “the longest letter” to demand an end to the suffering of fathers and mothers in prisons and work on having them released.
The letter was handed during a news conference held on Tuesday by Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Ex-Detainees outside the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City in the presence of prisoners’ families ex-detainees and representatives of rights groups.
