Palestinian officers and rights teams had lengthy referred to as for Nasser Abu Hmaid’s launch after his prognosis with a late stage of most cancers.
Ramallah, occupied West Financial institution – A Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli custody regardless of longstanding calls to launch him and claims of Israeli medical negligence following his late prognosis with most cancers greater than a 12 months in the past.
Palestinian authorities stated that 50-year-old Nasser Abu Hmaid died on Tuesday morning on the Assaf Harofeh Israeli hospital close to Tel Aviv.
He was transferred in a sudden method on Monday afternoon from the Ramla jail clinic to the hospital after his well being critically deteriorated and he slipped right into a coma.
A normal strike began on Tuesday morning with shops, colleges and companies shut throughout the occupied West Financial institution to mourn Abu Hmaid’s demise, together with Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus and Jenin.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stated in a press release that Abu Hmaid was “martyred because of the coverage of deliberate medical negligence” and held the Israeli occupation accountable.
Abu Hmaid was recognized with a complicated stage of lung most cancers in August 2021 after Israeli authorities delayed the availability of medical examinations and remedy, in response to Palestinian prisoner rights teams.
His household, prisoner teams and officers had since then launched a marketing campaign calling on Israel to launch him and warned that he was being uncovered to “a gradual demise” via medical negligence. The household repeatedly stated they needed their son to die by their aspect.
Again in September, following months of chemotherapy, the Assaf Harofeh hospital stated in a medical report there was nothing extra it may do to save lots of his life.
The hospital beneficial that Abu Hmaid be launched instantly and stated he was “in his final days.” He was nevertheless despatched again to the Ramla jail clinic and remained jailed.
His physique has not but been launched to Palestinian officers, who stated they're following up on his file on the highest ranges, so a funeral procession may very well be held.
In a press release on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) stated Israeli authorities “didn't think about our requests for the discharge of the prisoner due to his troublesome well being situation”.
Dozens of Palestinians participated in a protest organized by political events on Tuesday morning within the besieged Gaza Strip, in opposition to Abu Hmaid’s demise and Israeli medical negligence.
Protestors chanted slogans calling for the liberation of sick Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Senior chief of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad motion, Khaled al-Batch stated the Israeli occupation is “totally accountable for the assassination of Abu Hmaid” on the protest.
“The continual coverage of medical negligence is a type of gradual killing practiced in opposition to our prisoners. This is not going to cross and not using a value or punishment,” he warned.
The Palestinian Authority and the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross had organised an pressing go to for his mom to the hospital on Monday night, however he was in a coma.
Abu Hmaid was a former chief of the Fatah political social gathering’s armed wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. He hailed from a household of refugees dwelling within the al-Amari camp in Ramallah within the central Israeli-occupied West Financial institution.
He had been imprisoned since 2002 and was sentenced to life over his position in assaults carried out throughout the second Palestinian Intifada, or rebellion.
‘Deliberate’ neglect
Palestinian officers and rights teams have lengthy documented and condemned a “deliberate Israeli coverage of medical negligence”.
Israeli jail authorities frequently delay checkups and pressing surgical procedures for Palestinian prisoners for years, in response to prisoner teams.
Specialised medical doctors aren't frequently obtainable, aside from dentists, and “over-the-counter painkillers are administered as a treatment for nearly all well being issues,” rights teams stated in a joint report to the United Nations.
In 2020, 4 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody.
In November 2021, Palestinian prisoner Sami Umour, 39, died following a months-long delay of an urgently wanted surgical procedure for the intense coronary heart issues he was affected by.
Since Israel’s occupation of the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip in 1967, greater than 70 Palestinian prisoners have died from medical negligence in Israeli prisons, in response to the PPS.
Most Palestinians view detainees in Israeli prisons as political prisoners who're in detention due to the Israeli navy occupation or their resistance to it.
There are actually roughly 4,760 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. This contains at the least 500 who're sick with totally different illnesses, in addition to greater than 20 who are suffering from most cancers.
In the meantime, about 820 prisoners are held underneath “administrative detention”, a controversial coverage that enables Israel to carry detainees with out cost or trial.
Further reporting by Maram Humaid in Gaza.
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