RAMALLAH (PIC)– MP Issa Qaraqe who is the rapporteur of the PLC prisoners’ committee said that the number of cancer patients among Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails is on the rise.
He pointed to captive Salem Al-Shaer who contracted lung cancer in jail and to Bashar Salahat who is in clinical death and added that the number of those patients has risen over the past few years to 25.
Qaraqe called for an immediate international probe into the phenomenon and asked WHO to investigate the conditions of those sick internees.
He said that proper medical treatment should be accorded to those patients charging the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) with violating international and humanitarian norms that stipulate extending proper treatment to detained patients.
The lawmaker asked for medical examination of all Israeli medicines offered to those patients and for urgent surgeries to those in need in addition to maintaining daily check-ups of interned patients and providing specialist doctors and suitable clinics in each prison.
He also called for donations to the Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Al-Tamimi who is serving a 23-year imprisonment term and is in need of kidney transplant.
Tamimi is held in the Ramle prison in view of his case and the IPA had agreed to his operation on condition that costs are paid.
