The health condition of the Palestinian prisoner Bassam al-Sayeh 43 has entered a very critical stage the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said.
Following his visit to Ramla prison hospital the PPS lawyer affirmed that the cancer patient al-Sayeh has recently undergone a surgical pacemaker implantation.
Al-Sayeh suffers from both bone marrow and blood cell cancer in addition to serious lung inflammation.
He recently became unable to move the lawyer pointed out.
Al-Sayeh from Nablus was arrested on Oct. 8 2015 during a trial for his wife.
There are some 1700 sick Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons including 24 suffering from cancer. Rights groups have widely condemned Israel for its medical negligence of Palestinians in its prisons.
According to the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) poor conditions in Israeli prisons — that “have become renowned for offering only aspirin for all health treatments” — have led to the deterioration in the health of a large number of Palestinian prisoners.
