The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) on Sunday said that the health of cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid critically declined.
In Facebook remarks PPS said that Israeli jailers told prisoners in Ashkelon prison where Abu Hamid was before he was taken to Barzilai Hospital that “his life is in great danger.”
PPS added that what those jailers said indicated that Abu Hamid’s health became much worse.
Prisoner Abu Hamid suffered from a very high fever a few days ago and was urgently transferred to the hospital.
He has a lung cancer and recently started to take doses of chemotherapy after long Israeli procrastination and deliberate medical neglect.
However according to doctors supervising his condition Abu Hamid suffers from acute pneumonia as a result of a bacterial infection that has led to a lung failure and a coma.
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 terms.
