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Jenin / Ali Smoudi – The life of Hekmet Odah is in danger. The Tulkarem man is in Al Naqab Prison suffering from stomach injuries and gall stones. Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyers are calling on humanitarian institutions to immediately intervene.
“Effective action is required to save his life,” the PPS reported Thursday of Odah who Israeli forces arrested nearly three years ago on 16 December 2005.
Sentenced to six years by an Israeli military court, Odah told a PPS lawyer yesterday that contaminated water is wreaking havoc on his stomach condition. Israeli prison investigators kept him in interrogation for 50 days in Al Jalama where he developed Gallbladder stones.
Odah added that he cannot eat much of the food and cannot drink the tap water in the Al Naqab desert prison. He must buy filtered water from the Al Catina, the official store.
From the same northwestern West Bank province of Tulkarem is Moataz Qamez who spent 70 days in interrogation. He confirmed Odah’s reports regarding poor treatment by the prison administration, contaminated water and low quality food. An Israeli military court sentenced Qamez to 30 months in prison.
Qamez himself suffers from continuous pain in the lower part of his stomach and he is not given any treatment, only Ekamol, a pain tablet similar to Tylenol, that does not benefit his health condition.
There are approximately 11,000 Palestinians currently in Israeli prisons with hundreds in serious health conditions.
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