QALQILYA (PIC)– Palestinian prisoner Othman Ibrahim Younis from the city of Qalqilya in the West Bank who suffers from a serious health condition entered his eleventh year in the Israeli occupation’s prisons.
The Palestinian Prisoners Association said in a statement on Monday: “captive Othman Younis 35 resident of Sanniriya town near the city of Qalqilya enters today his eleventh year in Israeli jails as he had been arrested from Rafidia Hospital in Nablus in 2003 while visiting his sick mother and has been sentenced to four life sentences.”
It pointed out that captive Younis was shot with live bullets and four projectiles during his arrest following which he started suffering serious health problems topped by “losing eyesight in his right eye and the removal of parts of his pancreas liver and intestines” the statement said.
The PPA quoted the prisoner’s sister as saying that her brother was in need of treatment and surgical operations since 2003 but the prison administration has been neglecting his health condition.
She also called on all human rights institutions and Physicians for Human Rights “to intervene in order to put an end to the suffering of her detained brother.”
