AL-KHALIL (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority on Sunday transferred Palestinian prisoner Jaafar Awad 22 from Ramla prison hospital to Hadasa hospital in occupied Jerusalem after a sharp decline in his health condition.
The mother of prisoner Awad appealed to human rights groups to necessarily intervene to have her sick son released affirming that there is no reason justifying the detention of someone who can hardly move speak eat and drink without the help of others.
She said she visited Awad last Thursday in Ramla prison hospital and was disturbed by seeing him in very poor health condition noting that a new swelling appeared in his neck.
Prisoner Jaafar Awad has been complaining since a while of multiple health problems including an inflammation of the thyroid gland and glaucoma (an eye disease).
He also suffers from high blood sugar and bone fragility causing him acute pains in his neck arms and legs.
The prisoner from Beit Ummar town in al-Khalil has been in jail with no court verdict since the first of November 2013.
In another incident some prisoner patients in Ashkelon and Negev jails have been waiting to have medical treatment or surgeries for many years the Palestinian prisoner society said on Sunday.
The society’s lawyer who recently visited those jails said that prisoner Ali Hassan suffered a serious back problem in 2004 when he was exposed to torture at the hands of Israeli interrogators and since then he has been waiting to undergo surgery.
Another prisoner named Othman Younis from Qalqiliya has also been waiting to receive medical treatment since he suffered years ago from serious health complications resulting from multiple bullet injuries.
During his arrest in 2003 Younis was shot with 24 bullets by Israeli soldiers which led to the removal of parts of his abdomen intestines pancreas and spleen.
For his part prisoner Mohamed Rashed from Yatta told the lawyer that he needs urgent surgery to fix a problem in the pelvic bone area that had happened during his detention in 2012. However there is still no sign he will have this surgery soon.
Moreover the lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner society said following a visit to Hawara jail that the incarceration conditions of the Palestinian prisoners there are inhumane and disastrous.
He explained that the blankets in Hawara jail do not cover the needs of all prisoners and are worn-out decomposed and smelly.
He added that the prisoners are only able to go to bathrooms when they are allowed to leave their rooms during the time of recess.
Some of the prisoners have not taken a bath for eight days because there is no hot water the lawyer said.
Insufficient clothes high humidity in rooms and poor food are some of the complaints the lawyer heard during his visit to the prison.
