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Palestinian prisoner’s health takes turn for worse in Israeli jail

Wednesday 14-February-2018

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) raised on Wednesday alarm bells over the deteriorating health condition of prisoner Emad al-Saraj held in an Israeli jail.

PPS spoke out against the medical neglect which prisoner al-Saraj has been subjected to in the Israeli Nafha lock-up.

Al-Saraj said he has been waiting for over a couple of months to undergo medical checks. The Israeli prison authorities reneged on their promises to bring him a doctor.

Sentenced to life and 30 years in jail prisoner al-Saraj a native of the blockaded Gaza Strip has been diagnosed with a high stomach acid level that affected his vocal cords due to a hunger strike he had undergone in April 2017.

Al-Saraj has lost his ability to speak and is communicating with fellow inmates through writing.

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