The Prisoner's Center for Studies called on the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and the human rights institutions to put pressure on Israel to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners suffering from cancer in the Israeli prisons.

The Center called in a statement, a copy of which obtained by Safa, on the occasion of World Cancer Day, to oblige the occupation authorities to act in accordance with the articles of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law with regard to the prisoners' basic and human rights, especially in the issue of healthcare and providing treatments and medical follow-up.

Director of the Prisoner's Center for Studies, Raafat Hamdouneh, warned of the danger posed to cancer patients in the occupation prisons, which numbered 11 prisoners, according to statistics of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Committee.

Hamdouneh pointed out the deteriorating health condition of the prisoner Hussain Masalma who suffers from leukemia and is being held in "Soroka" hospital, saying that the occupation court delays his release despite his critical condition.