The sick prisoner, Mutassim Raddad (38 years), from Saida town, Tulkarm, who has been detained since 2006, is facing dangerous health conditions, due to his affliction with several diseases, including cancer.
Raddad takes more than 60 pills every day and suffers from severe pain. He cannot sleep for more than three hours due to the severity of his pain.
As a result of medical negligence in prisons, he has lost more than 60% of his intestine, as it began with intestinal infections, then it turned into cancerous tumors, after which he underwent several successive operations.
He suffers from permanent bleeding that causes anemia after years, in addition to high blood pressure, heart rate, difficulty breathing, problems with nerves and bones, poor eyesight, and pain deprived him of sleep.
Meanwhile, his suffering did not stop at this point, in 2018 he contracted a virus in his hands and feet as a result of his weakened immunity, which caused him to spread pills and severe pain in his body, and this increased the severity of his continuous suffering.
Activists on social media launched a massive electronic campaign, during which they called for the rescue of the prisoner, Mutassim Raddad, on the Twitter platform using the hashtag # Save Mutasim.
It is reported that the Israeli prisons administration uses the prisoners ’need for treatment as a tool for abuse. Through a set of systematic policies, the most important of which is the policy of deliberate medical negligence (slow killing), which in the past few years specifically caused the martyrdom of prisoners who stayed the last years of their detention in Ramla prison, the last of whom was the martyr Kamal Abu Waar.
There are 16 prisoners being held in the Ramle prison clinic, including seven prisoners who have been detained permanently for years, including Raddad, as well as Mansour Maqdah, who has been sentenced to 30 years, Khaled al-Shawish, who has been sentenced to life, Nahid al-Aqra, who has been sentenced to three life sentences, Saleh Saleh, who has been sentenced to five years Aahour and Muhammad Taqatqa, who have been detained without trial so far.
According to the numbers of the Prisoners Club, there are approximately 700 sick prisoners in the Israeli prisons, of whom 300 suffer from chronic diseases, including ten prisoners who suffer from cancer.