Mother of patient captive Raddad worried about her son’s condition

The mother of the cancer patient Mutassim Raddad, detained in Israeli jails, said she did not receive any news from her patient son, and that recently she has not been allowed to visit him.

She said during the weekly sit-in staged by the families of prisoners from Tulkarem in front of the headquarters of the Red Cross that she had heard in the media that her son was taken to hospital.

She added that her family received a telephone call from an Israeli officer who informed them that their visit to Mutassim scheduled for Tuesday had been cancelled, without clarifying the reasons.

The families of captives from Tulkarem held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for the lives of the patient prisoners, and demanded their release.

Raddad is a 32-year-old young man from Saida village in Tulkarem, and he has been serving a 20-year prison term since his detention on January 12, 2006.

Waed Society for prisoners and ex-detainees expressed fear that the patient captive will die in the Israeli jail as a result of the ongoing medical neglect and the authorities’ refusal to release him.

Waed said that prisoner Raddad was transferred on Monday from Hadarim jail to Meir hospital in very serious health condition, noting that the detainee already suffers from bowel cancer that cause him to bleed constantly.

Meanwhile, the Israeli prison administration has tightened its punitive procedures against the administrative prisoners to dissuade them from their protest steps.

Human rights sources said that the Megiddo prison administration has transferred eight administrative captives to other sections in the jail.

For its part, the prison administration in the Negev imposed new sanctions on the administrative prisoners; including depriving them of visits for two months and transferring a number of them to solitary confinement cells.

Lawyer Jawad Boulos said in a press statement on Tuesday that the administrative captives are determined to continue their protest steps until the achievement of their demands, noting that they are refusing meals for two days a week.