The Martyrdom of  Palestinian Prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid in the Occupation Detention Centers

Occupied A-Quds (ST) – The Palestinian prisoner, Nasir Abu Hamid, who had suffered from cancer, was martyred today as a result of the policy of deliberate medical negligence practiced by the Israeli occupation authorities against the prisoners.

Palestinian media reported that the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club as saying in a statement today, “The occupation killed Abu Hamid, 50, as part of the course of the occupation’s long policy of slow killing and deliberate procrastination in following up on Abu Hamid’s health condition and his late diagnosis of cancer, despite the serious symptoms that were apparent on him while he was in Ashkelon prison.”

The occupation authorities are holding the body of the martyr Abu Hamid and have not yet handed it over to his family.

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and the Palestinian Fatah movement mourned the martyr Abu Hamid.

Shtayyeh called on the Red Cross and the international and human rights institutions to intervene in order to release the sick, the elderly, the children, and female prisoners from the occupation detention centers.

The Palestinian national forces announced a comprehensive strike today in the cities and towns of the occupied West Bank, to mourn the death of the martyr Abu Hamid, and to condemn the occupation’s continuing crimes against the Palestinian people.

Yesterday, Abu Hamid entered a coma in the Ramle prison after a severe deterioration in his health and a large spread of cancer cells throughout his body and damage to his lungs.

Despite his family appeals to the International Committee of the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli occupation to transfer him to one of the hospitals in the occupied West Bank, the occupation kept him and refused all the appeals to release him.

Najla Khoury