Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid is fighting for his life in coma, his family said on Friday.
The family of the cancer-stricken detainee said the doctor informed them that their son had acute pneumonia as a result of a bacterial infection that led to a failure of his lungs, causing him to fall into a coma.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPC) had previously confirmed that prisoner Abu Hamid has fallen unconscious on Tuesday in the Israeli “Barzilai” Hospital.
The Club said he is on ventilators due to inflammation in his lungs, and he is in a rapidly-escalating serious health condition.
The Abu Hamid family told the PPC that as soon as they entered the intensive care unit, the Israeli security officers asked them to stay away from Nasser’s room, and they did not allow them to approach him.
The family appealed to all parties of concern to take urgent and effective action to save the life of their son, as well as on the Palestinian masses to “continue their popular support” to press the Israeli occupation authorities to release him.
The Commission warned in a statement that the prisoner Abu Hamid was battling death as a result of his suffering from the consequences of a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in the lungs he underwent last October, when the occupation then returned him to the prison before he recovered.
Abu Hamid, from the Al-Amari camp, east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, was detained in 2002, and sentenced to seven life sentences plus 50 years for resisting the occupation.
Furthermore, the family home has been demolished five times, four of his brothers are in Israeli prisons, while a fifth brother was shot dead by soldiers in 1994.
Source: Al-Manar Engish Website
