Please read this plea from the parents of the prisoner Mohammed and do your best to inform others by circulating, maybe someone somewhere can find a way to save his life.
By Iqbal Tamimi
With the rising sun of everyday 1600 sick Palestinian prisoners out of 7300 suffer unbearable pains, not only for being prisoners of the Israeli state but also for being extremely sick and in need of urgent medical help and for waiting and hoping to receive some medical treatment which is a farfetched dream.
One of those victims who suffer deteriorating health conditions due to medical negligence is Mohammed Mustafa Abdel Aziz, he is from the town of Beit Lahia in the northern sector of Gaza strip, but now he is staying with other 41 sick prisoners at the Ramle prison hospital fully paralyzed after being tortured and beaten by the Israeli authorities few years back.
Mohammed was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities in the summer of 2000 at the Beit Hanoun checkpoint North of the Gaza strip, while he was on his way to the West Bank to seek medical treatment for burns in his foot.
Since 2004 his father was denied visiting him. Mohammed was tortured and beaten up mercilessly by the Israeli prison wardens who claimed that he incited other prisoners to complain about the deterioration of living conditions inside the prison in Ashkelon. He was beaten badly that his spine was injured and two vertebrae’s, the fourth and the fifth were dislocated and he became totally paralyzed.
His father Mustafa is worried that his son has been subjected to medical research especially after being subjected to three different medical operations all of them where condemned a total failure. The father said that his son’s health is deteriorating and that he found out that Mohammed can’t do anything on his own or take care of himself, and all the assistance he gets is by his fellow Patients’ the prisoners who are being treated as well at the hospital of the prison.
His mother Maryam sobs and says that she can’t take all this pain and worry about her son ‘ I feel like bearing a mountain of worries while following the news of my son’s suffering in his illness from a distance without being able to do anything to ease his pain’ she said. ‘The feeling of fear for my son's life never abandoned me for one moment since he was arrested, but I'm still living the hope that someone can reassure me that he will be fine since the occupation robbed me even the right of visiting him’ she added. Wiping the tears of her eyes Maryam asks ‘where are all the good people who have a living conscience, why can’t anyone help my son? Isn’t it bad enough that the Israeli occupation paralysed him for good? Where are all the human rights institutions to fulfil their roles at least in assuring us that our children inside the prisons of the occupation are fine?".
Human rights activist at Mezan for human rights Miss Mervat Annahhal confirmed that their centres’ information sources confirmed the deterioration of the health of the prisoner Mohammed and that he is completely paralyzed and suffering because of the beatings and neglect and lack of medical treatment since he was first injured. Mervat added that the medical negligence is a systematic practice by the Israeli prisons that are depriving the Palestinian prisoners of treatment by specialist doctors. She said that her organization is contacting Israeli human rights movements requesting their assistance by obtaining Mohammed’s medical file to submit it to an Israeli medical institution of human rights where “Israeli" doctors can assign specialists to visit prisoners at hospitals to assess their conditions and do their best to save them.
Mohammed is now 33 years old, he was charged of resisting the occupation, and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment he has already spent 10 years of them as a prisoner, he was moved from prison to another for the last ten years the last was the Ramla prison hospital, where he has been there for more than four years.
Many Palestinian prisoners like Mohammed are suffering the consequences of torture and lack of medical treatment; can you do something to help them?
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