Palestinian cancer patient transferred from Israeli jails to hospital

[ 29/08/2010 - 10:19 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The prisoners' center for studies said that the health of prisoner and cancer patient Ra'ed Darabya, from Gaza, has suddenly deteriorated and was transferred to Soroka hospital. Rani, the brother of Darabaya, said that his brother was kidnapped four times, three times on charges of throwing stones in the first intifada and another time on allegations of killing an Israeli before 1993, but the last time he was sentenced to life imprisonment, noting that his brother started his life with marrow cancer in 2005. His family appealed through the center to all organizations concerned with prisoners' affairs to save its son from the clutches of certain death in the hope that he spends the rest of his life among his family. For his part, director of the center Ra'fat Hamdouna called on the Red Cross and all concerned parties to necessarily expose Israel's violations against Palestinian prisoners and urgently intervene to save prisoner Darabya and every prisoner suffering from chronic diseases from slow death inside Israel's jails. Darabya's health reached the risk status several times and he underwent many unsuccessful surgical operations, which led to the exposure of his spinal bones after an area of his back eroded. In another context, the British foreign office blatantly demanded the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who marked his 24 birthday on Saturday, without conditions, while ignoring the suffering of more than 7,000 Palestinians in captivity, including patients, children and women. "The thoughts of many in Britain are with Gilad Shalit and his family," the spokesman for the UK foreign office claimed. "His detention is unjustifiable and unacceptable. The British government demands his immediate and unconditional release," he added.