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Cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid battling death

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 17 Oct 2022 09:36
3 Min Read

The occupation's prison administration continues to carry out the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) against prisoner Abu Hamid despite his critical health condition.

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    Cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid

Cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid lost the ability to eat, and has had a noticeable drop in his body weight, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) confirmed.

Abu Hamid, now in Ramle prison, is in critical health condition, as it was recently discovered that he suffers from severe pneumonia. It is worth mentioning that his body is no longer responding to painkillers, -- the only medication he is currently being provided with -- after the doctors decided to stop his chemotherapy and acknowledged that Abu Hamid has reached the last stages [of life], the Club clarified.

The occupation's prison administration continues to carry out the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) against prisoner Abu Hamid.

Palestinian cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid may die at any moment. pic.twitter.com/68QrEThNPN

— Rawand.Shurrab𓂆 (@ShurrabRawand) September 9, 2022

The Palestinian Waed Prisoners Association has recently condemned the decision to refuse Abu Hamid's treatment, noting that this decision "was expected from an occupation that allowed Nasser Abu Hamid to reach this dangerous health condition in the first place."

The association called for continuing work "in all possible ways to support the steadfastness of prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, who has proven, along with his family, that he is a unique Palestinian case that deserves all support.

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It also stressed the course, in the coming days, of the mass, popular, and media movement to expose the policies that the occupation carries out against prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid and all sick prisoners, especially those suffering from cancer who face deliberate and dangerous medical negligence.

In turn, the Ministry of Prisoners in Gaza described the prison authorities' decision not to release him as a "slow killing and systematic execution" against sick prisoners and an unprecedented disregard for their lives.

Abu Hamid's family has lately said that their son is dying in the occupation prisons, stressing that "the Palestinian Foreign Ministry is failing to follow up on his case."

Read more: Hunger Strikes: Palestinian Prisoners’ Last Resort

Earlier this year,  Abu Hamid, 49, from the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, entered a coma after suffering from severe inflammation of the lungs as a result of bacterial contamination.

Last month, the Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs said a tumor detected in Abu Hamid's head was due to Israeli negligence and failure to deal with the prisoner's health condition at an earlier stage.

Abu Hamid has been in Israeli occupation prisons since 2002 and is serving seven life sentences and an additional 50 years. He is one of five siblings serving life sentences in Israeli occupation prisons.

His mother has been denied from visiting him for years, and he was unable to attend the funeral of his father who passed away while Abu Hamid was in prison. However, despite all the occupation's attempts to break his spirit, he rejected a proposal made by his lawyer to "request a pardon from the prime minister of the occupation government in order to release him."

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