Prisoner Orouk suffers the slow death in Israeli occupation prisons

Mohammed Mohsen Wedd - Umm al-Fahm

Mowaffaq 'Arouq, 77, from the town of Yafa Nazareth, lives in the Palestinian interior. Slow death in prisons, Israeli occupation prisons, after suffering years of systematic medical negligence that caused him cancer, where he underwent stomach eradication.

The Israeli Public Prosecution accused the prisoner of transferring two young men who were later found to have carried out a martyrdom operation in Tel Aviv, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment thirty years, of which he spent 17 years in the dark of the occupation prisons.

Although Veins - who has been serving life imprisonment since 2003 - was subjected to stomach ablation, the Israeli prison authorities are still concealing the truth about his health status, according to his family, who has lived a week of torture and suffering in search of her father between prisons and Israeli hospitals.

Disease symptoms
The suffering of the veins with cancer has been exacerbated by the exhaustion of chemotherapy sessions that no longer work, to begin to show new pathological symptoms: hemorrhage from the nose and mouth, persistent vomiting, and loss of appetite with a continuous decline in weight, until the doctors decided in early February to undergo a process Surgical.

The family moved during the detention of their prisoner from the "Eshel" prison in Beersheba and the Negev desert prison, then the "Hadarim" prison and then the "Gilboa" prison where he was held for eight years and the "Ashkelon" prison, as his last stop in the prison hospital in Ramleh prison.

Family members have lived through the suffering of families with their father over the years of imprisonment, and the suffering has worsened due to his cancer. Note that the veins thrown him in Israeli prisons and he was in excellent health and high physical fitness, and his body has been eroded behind bars and cancer has caught him in the darkness of the cells.

The journey of death
Away from the darkness of the cells, Wasim Ibn Al-Asir found his father yesterday at the Israeli Hospital "Barzalai" in Ashkelon after a three-day research trip, during which the family moved between "Asaf Hrviyeh Hospitals, Kaplan" and the Ramla prison hospital, where the management of these hospitals discarded any information On veins, who underwent a stomach resection last Tuesday.

Wasim recounted to Al-Jazeera Net the suffering of his captive father, a father of six and has 21 grandchildren, as the family has been living since his arrest in 2003, suffering from transportation between Israeli prisons and denial of visits.

He reviewed the last days of his father’s life before the family learned about his stomach eradication, where he found the last two weeks at “Barzalai” hospital under heavy guard consisting of four security men who prevented them from entering the parent’s room on the death bed, and prevented the medical staff from revealing to the family About the surgical treatment and the fact of the health status of their father.

Wassim - and the rest of the family's children - express their fears that the health of the father who is lying on the death bed continues to deteriorate, and they fear his death in the darkness of Israeli prisons, where the family lives in the hope that its elderly father will embrace freedom and cast the face of the creator between the arms of his children and grandchildren.

For his part, the activist of the captive movement, Qadri Abu Wasel, expresses his concern about the practices and practices of the occupation prisons authorities and conceals them on the health status of the veins. Al-Sayeh, 47, is from Nablus.