The boy Abdel-Rahman holds a picture of his father, the martyr Abdel Nasser Halawah, while his eyes filled with tears, missing the feelings of love and safe that his father used to fill him with before being killed by the Israeli forces.

"After my father was injured and admitted to the hospital, he was no longer the same as before, he was no longer able to stand on his feet or eat food, we missed his laughter and his courtesy with us," Abdel-Rahman said to Safa Press agency.

Feelings of sadness were hanging over the house of Halawa family in the Al-Makhfa neighborhood of Nablus, in the northern of West Bank.

Halawa was killed after he was injured four months ago with the Israeli bullets, leaving behind three sons and a family that bid him farewell to tears and sorrow.

On the sixteenth of last August, Abdel Nasser, who is deaf-mute, went to visit his sister, who lives in the occupied city of Jerusalem and to pray in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

At the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem, the Israeli soldiers called him and ordered him to stop, but he did not hear them, so he continued walking without knowing what was going on around him. He was shot by two live bullets in the leg which caused him to bleed and shatter the bone.

His brother Anwar indicates that they did not know Abdel Nasser’s intention to go to Jerusalem, and he asked him two days ago about the conditions of their sister there, and he expressed his desire to visit her.

He confirms that the soldiers at the checkpoint did not issue him any warning to stop. "They could have fired warning shots in the air, or asked a passerby to alert him, but they did not," Anwar said.

Abdel Nasser was transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Centre to receive treatment, but he found nothing but medical negligence in it. After about three months, he returned to his home awaiting his death, which did not take long.

Anwar holds the Israel, with all its military and medical institutions, responsible for the death of his brother, starting with targeting him by bullets without justification and ending with the medical negligence and refusal to complete his treatment.

He added, "As soon as we received the news of Abdel Nasser’s injury, I went to the hospital, and after three days of searching, I was able to reach the doctor who informed me of his health condition, and told me that my brother underwent through surgical operation."

It turned out that the operation that he underwent was only first aid to stop the bleeding and heal the wounds, without any surgical intervention to treat the broken leg bones.

He notes that, as a result of medical negligence, he developed an infection at the site of the wound, which had a devastating effect on the functioning of the organs.

He added, "There was a strong insistence on the part of the hospital administration to evacuate him, claiming that he would return to complete his treatment after a month."

After nearly a hundred days of Anwar’s struggle to keep his injured brother in the hospital, a final decision was issued by the hospital’s administration to evacuate him to be transferred, unconscious, to Nablus.

Neglect and racism

The treatment that the martyr Abdel Nasser received during his stay in the hospital shows to what extent it contributed to the deterioration of his health condition, leading to his death two weeks after his return to his home.

During the first period of his admission to the hospital, he was conscious, and was able to recognize his brother, but he soon fell into a coma during which he was very mobile and moaning from the intensity of pain.

"They refused all my attempts to delay his discharge from the hospital until they search for another hospital to treat him," his brother says expressing their fear that he would die in their hospital.

They also refused to transfer him to an Israeli rehabilitation center, on the pretext that he does not carry an Israeli identity card.

He adds, "I told them that this is an injured person and he must obtain his right to the necessary treatment, regardless of his identity."

His sister Faten, with tears, recalls the soft heart of her martyr brother and his love for his children and family.

"He was kind to his children, loving them so much, preferring them on himself, and despite his disability, he worked with his brother to earn his livelihood with his hand," Faten told Safa Press Agency.

She points out that after his return to Nablus, he was unconscious, although his eyes were open, and his movements showed the extent of pain he suffered from.

Source : Safa