Today, Thursday, the family of the sick prisoner, Walid Daqqa, demanded his immediate release so that he can receive treatment without restriction.

According to the family's statement, the Israeli Prisons Authority allowed today to visit his wife, Sana, and daughter, Milad, in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, after delaying it for more than two weeks.

And she said: “The prisoner, Daqqa, underwent an operation to remove part of his right lung on April 12, 2023, and he is still in the process of slow recovery from the last operation, and he is able to speak with difficulty, and he needs close medical supervision and continuous care around the clock due to his emaciation.” General, weight loss.

The prisoner, Daqqa, was admitted to the hospital on March 23, 2023, after his health condition deteriorated sharply after he was diagnosed with myelofibrosis (a rare cancer of the bone marrow) on December 18, 2022, which developed from leukemia that was diagnosed nearly ten years ago, and was left untreated. serious.

The family added: "Despite the complexity of the prisoner's health condition, he may be transferred to Ramla Prison Hospital during the coming period, and this hospital, known as the slaughterhouse, will certainly not be the appropriate environment for the prisoner's recovery, nor for the delicate bone marrow transplant he needs." despite the availability of donors.

The family indicated that it had begun legal steps in this direction to nullify the unjust additional sentence of two additional years, which unjustly increased the prisoner’s actual sentence (which is 37 years), which ended on March 24, 2023.