Two Palestinian female political detainees appeal for medical intervention as their conditions deteriorate in Israeli occupation prisons

Saturday November 03, 2007 21:30 by IMEMC Staff saed at imemc dot org

Seema Anbas, in charge of the Detainees File at the Detainees Studies Center in Tulkarem, said on Saturday that detainees Fatima Al-Zoq, 39, and her niece Rawda Habeeb, 30,both from Gaza, are facing deteriorating health conditions and are being deprived of their right to medical care.

Palestinian Female Detainees

Anbas added that Al-Zoq is seven months pregnant and is suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, and is not being provided with sufficient and healthy food.

Anbas also stated that Al-Zoq id continuously losing weight, and that her body is getting weaker as she continues to be deprived from medical attention.

Meanwhile, detainee Habeeb is suffering from weakness in her sight, is losing weight, and needs a surgery in her back.

Anbas called on human rights groups to expose the illegal Israeli practices against the detainees, especially medical negligence. She also stated that physicians must be allowed into the Israeli prisons to conduct medical checkup for the detainees.

Al-Zoq and Habeeb were taken prisoner on May, 22, 2007 at the Eretz Crossing. They were heading to an Israeli hospital as a surgery was scheduled for Habeeb.

Army claimed that they were attempting to carry an attack against soldiers at the crossing. The Israeli prosecution claims that both women are members of the Islamic Jihad movement.

It is worth mentioning that Al-Zoq is a mother of six children and is seven months pregnant, while Habeeb is a mother of four.

Translated by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

Ofer prisoners appeal to concerned organizations to save lives of prisoners

[ 04/11/2007 - 04:15 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Palestinian political prisoners affiliated with the Islamic Jihad Movement in the Israeli occupation government Ofer prison called on human rights and law-oriented organizations as well as the PA concerned ministries to intervene to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners from torture and medical neglect inside Israeli jails.

The Ofer prisoners confirmed in a leaked letter that the health status of one of their prison mates called Mohamed Haribat, 25, is deteriorating because of the prison administration's refusal to allow him any medical checkup, voicing concern that in case he does not get immediate medical care, he will end up losing his hearing ability.

Prisoner Haribat had been subjected to brutal torture at the hands of Israeli investigators after having been kidnapped in mid 2006.

The letter also pointed out that the Ofer prison's court refused to release Haribat and extended his detention despite his worsening state of health at the pretext that he had carried out activities and social events to the benefit of the Islamic Jihad movement.

In the same context, the Ofer court sentenced Montaser Hamdan, 38, to three years in prison in addition to two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 1,500 dollars at the pretext that he had played a leading role in the Islamic Jihad movement, established relations with Islamic Jihad leaders and financed their activities in Ramallah and El-Bireh district.

The family of administrative prisoner Walid Harb from the village of Iskaka, Salfit city, appealed to the organizations concerned with human rights and prisoners' affairs to pressure the IOA in order to take him out of his solitary confinement in the Israeli Ramla Prison.

His family added that the IOA deliberately put pressure on him through the harsh conditions of isolation which is contrary to prisoners' and human rights.

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