Ramallah – Ma’an – The Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners said that sick prisoners in the occupation prisons are subjected to a systematic medical crime aimed at killing them slowly, and its severity has increased since the seventh of last October. In addition to their physical and psychological suffering from the disease, they are besieged by hunger, thirst, and deprivation of treatment. In addition to being subjected to deliberate abuse and torture without regard to their health status and injuries, they became the focus and targeting in particular.

This was confirmed by the Commission’s lawyer after his recent visit to the so-called Ramla Hospital, specifically when he was unable to see the sick prisoner Moatasem Raddad (42 years old) from the city of Tulkarm. Raddad apologized for not meeting with the lawyer due to his inability to move and leave the bed due to the difficulty of his health condition.

The lawyer says: ‘The last time I met the prisoner was on 02/25/2024, while during
this period the prison administration transferred the prisoner from Ofer Prison to Ramla Hospital, and from Ramla Hospital to a civilian hospital, then he was returned to Ramla Hospital again.’ And every time the visit was obstructed without giving a reason, I accordingly filed a complaint with the director of Ramla Prison, after which I was allowed to visit the prisoner, but unfortunately I was not able to see him.’

Regarding the prisoner’s health condition, he is one of the most difficult medical cases in the Israeli occupation prisons, as he suffers from serious intestinal infections, and constant bleeding that causes him to have a severe drop in blood, and he is exposed to continuous fainting cases, in addition to high blood pressure and shortness of breath. Irregular heartbeat, in addition to severe back and joint pain.

In view of the above, Fardad receives a monthly injection, which requires his continuous transfer from Ofer Prison to Ramla Hospital, but the prisoner now prefers to stop treatment due
to the double pain he suffers during his transfer to the post, and the very bad treatment he is subjected to by the Nahshun forces. .

Also, the transfer of the prisoner after the war from Ramla Hospital to Ofer Prison led to a serious deterioration in his health. He was detained in a cell that lacked the minimum necessities of human life, and many of the medications he was receiving in Ramla Clinic were stopped, in addition to poor food and scarcity of clothes and blankets. Which made the matter more difficult, at the same time the Ofer prison administration refused to return him directly to the Ramla clinic, and waited for him to reach the stage of extreme danger to do so.

Note that Moatasem has been detained since 2006 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. During his arrest, he was injured by dozens of shrapnel, and his health condition worsened while he was in prison, as he spent most of the detention period in the Ramla prison clinic.

Source: Maan News Agency