A report released on Tuesday by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that prisoner Husam Matar who has been in solitary confinement for 74 days suffers from multiple serious health problems.
The Commission explained that its lawyer Youssef Mattia visited prisoner Matar in Nafha jail and reported his suffering from many health issues most notably high blood pressure and cholesterol severe dizziness and anemia which prevents him from seeing and breathing properly as well as severe back and joint pains varicose veins in the legs and loss of beard and body hair due to an acute iron deficiency.
Despite his difficult health condition the Nafha jail administration has been deliberately ignoring Matar’s suffering since 2010 and once gave him an experimental drug on purpose making him suffer from serious health complications.
He was also prescribed wrong medication for his blood pressure issue before he found that the medicine was for the treatment of a heart disease.
Prisoner Matar from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber is serving a life sentence and he is married with two kids.
In the same report the Commission also said that its lawyer Fawwaz Shalludi visited prisoner Sa’eid Duwaikat an 18-year-old from Nablus who was seriously injured by Israeli gunfire upon his arrest on October 18 2022.
According to the Commission prisoner Duwaikat was transferred to Beilinson Hospital immediately after his arrest and stayed there for about one month during which he underwent four major surgeries including two for the removal of bullets from his abdomen and pelvis.
Duwaikat’s condition is stable now but he uses crutches to move around and receives several medicines and natural therapies.
The prisoner had served jail terms twice before and an Israeli court already issued a suspended prison sentence against him.
The Commission also said on Tuesday that 22-year-old prisoner Yasser Salahat from Jenin refugee camp suffers from harsh incarceration conditions in an isolation cell in Gilboa jail.
Lawyer Shireen Iraqi from the Commission said that prisoner Salahat is isolated under difficult conditions and repeatedly transferred every three months from one isolation cell to another.
“I had to wait for one hour before I was allowed to see Salahat and when he came to the visiting room his hands and feet were shackled at the pretext that he posed a threat to state security” lawyer Iraqi added.
