GAZA (PIC)– The mother of Palestinian prisoner Ashraf Al-Baluji died on Saturday without seeing her dream of having her son released come true the Wa’ed society for prisoners and ex-prisoners said in a statement.
The IOA was barring the mother from visiting her son for several years at security pretexts and she died without seeing Ashraf.
The mother had high hopes that her son might be released in the prisoners exchange deal with Israel in return for the freedom of IOF captive Gilad Shalit but the swap deal did not materialize so far.
Ashraf who has been in occupation jails for almost 17 years is serving three life sentences on charges of killing three Israelis in 1990.
Wa’ed pointed out that Ashraf is held in solitary confinement and is deprived of visits other than being the regular target of beatings at the hands of Israeli jailors. He told his mother before her death that both his hands and feet were chained for two days to the extent that he felt his bones were breaking.
The society underlined that many Palestinian prisoners lose their relatives and loved ones without being able to see them or bid them farewell which it described as a kind of psychological torture.
The society asked the Red Cross and human rights organizations to pressure the IOA into allowing family visits to captives and pointed out that more than 800 Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip are deprived from visiting their detained relatives for more than three months now.
