RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies has learnt that an Israeli military court decided to extend the isolation of Sheikh Jamal Abu al-Hayja a prominent Hamas leader for the sixth year running.
Sheikh Abu al-Hayja is serving nine lives plus 20 years. He is in a bad health condition as he lost one of his arms during the Israeli occupation massacres at the Jenin refugee camp and he caught some skin diseases in the isolation cells of the Ramlah prison.
The same court refused a request made by Sheikh Abu al-Hayja to meet his son Abdel-Salam who is serving a seven and a half years sentence or his other son Asem who is in administrative detention for the past three years. The court told Sheikh Abu al-Hayja that he should not be allowed to meet anyone in this world.
The wife of Sheikh Abu al-Hayja said she was worried about his deteriorating health and expressed dismay at the renewal of his isolation calling on the captors of Shalit not to forget her husbands name from the list of Palestinian captives in the exchange deal.
Meanwhile the Ahrar centre called on human rights organisations to intervene to get Sheikh Abu al-Hayja and 17 other captives out of isolation cells.
Fuad al-Khoffash of the Ahrar centre said that the Israeli prison authority isolates leaders like Sheikh Abu al-Hayja because their presence amongst other prisoners boosts the morale of those prisoners.
He added that the health of those who are kept in isolation cells deteriorates because of the lack of light causing deterioration in the eyesight and skin diseases and that is what happened with Sheikh Abu al-Hayja who has been in isolation since his arrest on 26 August 2002.
