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Sun 11 Jun 2023 11:17 am - Jerusalem Time

Severe pain prevents prisoner Ali Al-Rajabi from sleeping, and treatment is a painkiller

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published, in its report issued today, Sunday, the details of the health status of the sick prisoner, Ali Hassan Abdullah Al-Rajabi (47 years), from Hebron, after the commission’s lawyer, Sherine Iraqi, visited him in Gilboa prison.

The prisoner suffers from severe back pain throughout the 24 hours due to the presence of discs, and the pain has begun to spread and descend to the joints, which prevents him from sleeping at night and moving normally during the day, in addition to the presence of a constant heat in the man’s soles of unknown cause, and he has lost 20 pounds of weight. A kilo to relieve pressure on his joints, but to no avail.


Al-Rajabi went several times to the prison clinic, and the orthopedic doctor assured him that he needed urgent treatment, imaging, and a ramotolog to find out the causes of the pain he was suffering from, in addition to providing a special medical mattress so that he could sleep. However, the prison administration procrastinated, as usual, by providing The necessary treatment for him and suffice with painkillers only.


The prisoner had previously suffered from cataracts in the eyes, and he underwent an operation in May 2022, and his condition is now good.

Noting that Al-Rajabi was arrested on March 7, 2003, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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Severe pain prevents prisoner Ali Al-Rajabi from sleeping, and treatment is a painkiller