WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist Regime has deprived a cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner of badly-needed medical care, an advocacy group says.
In a report, carried by Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Sunday that Palestinian prisoner Abdul-Basit Muatan, who suffers from cancer, is prevented from having access to desperately-needed medical care.
The PPS added that the medical condition of Muatan, who is behind bars in Ofer Prison, has exacerbated due to the prevention, calling for urgent action to ensure his access to the necessary healthcare before it is too late.
The Palestinian inmate, who has been detained since October 25, had undergone a number of surgeries prior to his detention, including a surgical removal of part of his colon.
However, the advocacy group said that it was later found that cancer cells were not completely removed during the operation meaning that cancer has most probably spread across his body.
Meanwhile, Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash is facing an imminent threat to his life, a Palestinian commission for prisoners has warned, as the inmate has entered the 132nd consecutive day of his open-ended hunger strike against the occupying regime’s so-called policy of administrative detention despite his deteriorating health condition.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said in a statement on Sunday that the 40-year-old Palestinian inmate’s health condition has reached a critical stage as a result of his prolonged hunger strike in protest at his indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The commission went on to say that Abu Hawwash is suffering from frequent loss of consciousness, severe potassium deficiency, various pains all over his body, and constant vomiting after being on months-long hunger strike against his detention without charge.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in the occupying regime’s jails. Hundreds of them have apparently been incarcerated under the “administrative detention”. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.