No details about his health conditions were communicated to the family, except that he has a “blood problem”.
Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa was transferred Sunday to the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula after his health condition deteriorated, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Daqqa’s family said in a statement on Wednesday that the Israeli prison administration prevented them from communicating with Daqqa for more than two months, even during the Supreme Court session to consider a petition submitted for his release on November 20.
Palestinians took part in a protest in Baqa al-Gharbiyye in 1948-occupied territories, calling for the immediate release of cancer-stricken prisoner Walid Daqqa, who is suffering in Israeli jails. pic.twitter.com/475ytKSq1N
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) August 5, 2023
In the statement, the family added that they learned from their lawyer that Daqqa had been transferred last Sunday to the hospital. No details about his health conditions were communicated to the family, except that he has a “blood problem”.
In the statement, the family called on prisoner authorities, legal institutions, and the International Red Cross to immediately intervene to secure an emergency family and medical visit for the detainee.
The family also asked for Daqqa’s immediate release, especially since he has ended his life sentence, later commuted to 37 years, since March 24.
An Israeli court has once again refused the early release of long-term Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who suffers from terminal cancer.
Daqqa, who has been detained since 1986, was diagnosed with a rare type of bone marrow cancer several months ago. pic.twitter.com/guyhbDuSjI
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) August 7, 2023
However, two more years were added to his sentence after accusing him of attempting to help prisoners contact their families by phone.
Daqqa, 60, is a Palestinian writer and activist, who has been imprisoned by Israel since 1986 on charges of killing an Israeli soldier.
Last year, Daqqa was diagnosed with a malignant stage of Myelofibrosis – a rare form of bone marrow cancer.
(PC, WAFA)
