The family of a critically ill Palestinian prisoner has called on international humanitarian and legal organizations to secure the release of its son in order to get proper treatment outside prison, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Wednesday.
Nasser Abu Hamid, 49, from the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, is suffering from lung cancer, and, according to his family, his health has gravely deteriorated.
Abu Hamid has been in prison since 2002 and he is serving seven life terms plus 50 years for his resistance to the Israeli occupation.
The Prisoner's Club: Nasser Abu Hamid's health condition in "Ramle Prison" implies double threats to his fate, after the results of recent tests revealed that there is a strong possibility that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body after it spread in the lungs. https://t.co/8pqgEy1NmU
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Abu Hamid’s brother, Mohammad, told the Commission’s attorney Karim Ajweh after visiting his brother at Ramleh prison clinic in the center of Israel, that x-ray images showed that the cancer is spreading in his left lung and affecting the arteries and heart.
He said Nasser has difficulty talking, lost weight, and vomits constantly, in addition to having pain all over his body, mainly in his head, and has to breathe through an oxygen mask at most times, expressing concern that cancer may have spread to the head.
According to Naji Abu Hamid, Nasser's brother;
The latest medical examination at Asaf Harofeh hospital showed that the cancer is spreading in his left lung& affecting the arteries&heart. There is a real concern that cancer may have spread to the brain.#أنقذوا_ناصر_أبو_حميد https://t.co/PxPMGOXCdj pic.twitter.com/IRHKwKRmvC
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Mohammad has urged international humanitarian organizations, particularly the Red Cross, to intervene with the Israeli occupation authorities to have his brother released in order to get treatment abroad before cancer kills him.
Nasser Abu Hamid has four other siblings serving long prison sentences in Israel for their resistance activities and one brother was killed by the Israeli occupation forces. The family home in the Amari camp was demolished several times by the Israelis, the last of which was in 2019.
(WAFA, PC, Social Media)
