The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that the two prisoners, Shadi Halawa (40 years), from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, and Ahmed Jaafra (57 years) from Bethlehem, are facing deliberate medical negligence from the Ramon prison administration.

Lawyer Youssef Mattia said, after his visit to Ramon prison, that the prisoner, Halawa, suffers from multiple health problems in the liver, kidneys, and nerves, and lives on painkillers.

He added that the prisoner Halawa, who was arrested on 12/12/2005, and sentenced to life imprisonment four times and 40 years, also suffers from a problem in the heart valves, and that the prison administration does not care about his difficult health condition, and transfers him every four months from one detainee to another.

He pointed out that the prisoner Jaafara, who was arrested on 14/6/2004, and sentenced to life imprisonment and 40 years, also suffers from deliberate medical negligence from the occupation prison administration, and complains of several problems and back pain (disc), in addition to the chronic sinus problem. He has been waiting for four years to undergo a sinus operation, but the prison administration is procrastinating.

The authority held the occupation prisons administration fully responsible for the continuation of the series of medical neglect against the prisoners, and called on all international institutions, human rights institutions and the Red Cross to play their necessary role towards the issue of prisoners, especially the sick ones.