Fadi Al-Asa-Bethlehem

"For only two minutes, I saw my son Muhammad, who has kidney failure, in the occupation court." With these words, the father of the Palestinian youth, Muhammad Ali Taqatqa, a twenty-year-old, started talking about his son, who has been held in Israeli jails for nearly two weeks.

Taqqata suffered kidney failure in 2013, and he was arrested for the first time by the occupation soldiers from his house in Beit Fajjar (south of Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank) in 2018, and he spent five days inside the prison - without charge - before releasing him.

After his first arrest, his health condition worsened, and he started dialysis at least three times per week, before his second arrest in mid-February.

Muhammad's mother did not accept the hadith originally because of excessive heartbreak, but his father did not want to complete the interview, and considers that he can do nothing for his son, who knows that in what the occupation calls the Ramleh prison clinic. He watched him in court two minutes and confirmed that he had not washed his kidneys, which means that he would enter a serious health stage.

Muhammad Taqatqa's father talked briefly about his son, whom he does not know much about, about two weeks after his capture (Al-Jazeera).

Pictures in the hospital
If the family today wants to remember Muhammad, then they look at his self-portraits (my predecessor), which are mostly from Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, where he is receiving treatment and dialysis three times a week.

Khaldoun Taqatqa (Muhammad's uncle) fears for the life of his nephew, the family knows full well that the prisoners are in the hands of an occupation that does not respect human values, and seeks to steal and destroy their wills, and neglects their treatment, especially as it does not provide treatment for them and delays in that, and wants them in bad health, and seeks to kill them, According to Khaldoun Taqatqa.

The mother of a martyr and two prisoners
In a similar case, the mother of the martyr Sami Abu Dayak, and the two prisoners, Samer and Salah, say, “I have four children, one of whom was martyred and two in prison.” And her son, the martyr, was sentenced to three life sentences and thirty years, 18 years of which he spent in prison, and he suffered from cancer five years before He was martyred inside the prisons.

Sami's mother did not sleep last Sunday while she was preparing herself, after the occupation allowed her to visit her captive son Samer inside the prisons, who accompanied his brother, the martyr, who is detained at the Ramleh prison clinic at the last moments of his life at the end of last October.

The mother of Sami Abu Diyak, who suffered from cancer five years before his death in prisons (Al-Jazeera)

Securityly rejection
Um Sami, who is from the town of Silat al-Dhahr in the Jenin Governorate (north of the West Bank), received a permit that allowed her to visit her two captive sons, visited Salah twice, before informing the Red Cross that she had obtained a transit ticket from a military checkpoint near Ramallah (central the West Bank) Visiting her son Samer, who has not seen her since his brother's martyrdom.

Um Sami tells Al-Jazeera Net that, despite the proximity of the Jalameh checkpoint to their residence to enter the occupied land, the occupation gave her permission near Ramallah, which is far from it, and despite that she went there, and was surprised to stop her while she was walking in the line of entry of the families of the prisoners, on the pretext that it was "rejected by security."

I have no life without them
I was surprised, because she has a permit issued by the occupation authority, and a ticket to cross through the Ni'lin checkpoint in Ramallah, and the permit period expires after ten months.

The mother of the witness, Sami, argued the occupation soldiers at the roadblock, but threatened to arrest her, but she considered them responsible for what happened with her; “I told them they arrested me; you did not leave me life, you killed my son, and they arrested two of my children.”

She sees that her son Sami needs more than a visit, as he is in a difficult psychological state, after his brother was martyred, due to medical negligence in prisons, and although she prepared herself well for the visit, she was very disappointed.

Calls to save the sick prisoner Muhammad Taqatqa (Al-Jazeera)

People are worried
The Prisoners and Editors Affairs Committee counted about seven hundred sick Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli occupation detention camps; ten of them were afflicted with cancer, and 180 to 200 were in need of excellent medical attention.

In asking Al-Jazeera Net for the authority’s spokesman, Hassan Abed Rabbo, about the condition of the families of these prisoners, he says that “the parents are concerned about any family member if he enters the hospital in a normal medical condition, so how if he is a sick prisoner inside the prisons, his family cannot see, and sometimes not His lawyer sees him, other than the family’s lack of confidence in the medical services provided to the prisoners inside the prisons.

The families of the prisoners live in anxiety around the clock, and their most dangerous health conditions are the elderly prisoner Muwaffaq 'Arouq, 77, who has been detained since 2003, who was transferred from Barzalai Hospital to Ramla Prison in a critical health condition, and the occupation expelled his family from the hospital because A Palestinian detainee from the interior occupied in 1948; Abd Rabou wonders: How would you feel if you were in their place?