Prisoner Fouad Al-Shobaki Suddenly Rushed to Hospital in Critical Condition
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Elderly Prisoner Fouad al-Shobaki, 82, is suddenly rushed to the hospital in a critical condition, and the Fatah Movement holds the Israeli occupation fully responsible.
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Portrait of elderly prisoner al-Shobaki (Social Media)
Elderly Prisoner Fouad al-Shobaki, 82, was suddenly rushed to Soroka Hospital, for unknown reasons, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission. In a statement, the Commission stated that a legal team is following up on the prisoner's condition and health status.
دعواتكم للأسير البطل فؤاد الشوبكي.. فقد تم نقله للمستشفى بعد تدهور مفاجئ طرأ على صحته#الحرية_لأسرانا pic.twitter.com/8RE9YgdbWL
— HaniAbuShaqra (@HaniShaqra) November 29, 2021
Al-Shobaki is the oldest Palestinian prisoner in Israeli occupation prisons. He is from the Gaza Strip and has been detained since 2006 with a sentence of up to 17 years in prison.
It is noteworthy that al-Shobaki, after four years in the Palestinian prison of Ariha under British-American supervision, ended up in Israeli prisons after the occupation forces kidnapped him from Ariha prison in March 2006.
Major General al-Shobaki is a former financial official in the Palestinian General Security Service and a former financial advisor to the late President Yasser Arafat.
Immediately after his arrest, al-Shobaki was interrogated about the so-called Karen A weapons ship, which “Israel” intercepted in January 2002 in the Red Sea and he was accused of funding. He was arrested by the Palestinian Authority in May of the same year and was transferred to Ariha Prison.
Fatah holds Israeli occupation fully responsible for al-Shobaki’s life
After the news of the prisoner’s transfer to the hospital spread, the “Commission of Martyrs and Prisoners of the Supreme Leadership of Fatah Movement” warned that the prisoner, Major General Fouad Hijazi al-Shobaki (Abu Hazem), is in a critical condition.
The Movement expressed its great concern over the deliberate Israeli medical neglect that Prisoner Fouad al-Shobaki is subjected to, especially since he is over 80 years old and suffers from immunodeficiency and other chronic diseases. It also called for launching a national, Palestinian and Arab, and international campaign to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to release him.
Recently, demonstrations were organized in a number of Palestinian cities in solidarity with the prisoners in the occupation prisons, and the demonstrators chanted slogans rejecting any compromise over their lives.
