Weak immunity and pain ... Corona is obsessed with cancer patients and their families

Fadi Al-Asa-Jerusalem

The mother of the Palestinian prisoner afflicted with cancer, Yasser Rabaya, insisted on carrying his photo during the meeting with her in the first days of the holy month of Ramadan, in light of her fear for his health from the deterioration with the spread of the Corona pandemic around the world.

Rabayeh - whose family lives in the town of Al-Eizariya (east of occupied Jerusalem) - spent about twenty years in Israeli occupation prisons, and is sentenced to life imprisonment, and a patient with bowel cancer.

Bad immunity The
family fears today that his condition will deteriorate with the spread of the Corona virus, because his physical immunity is bad after receiving chemotherapy in prison, undergoing more than one operation, and taking medications to try to prevent an outbreak of the disease in his body.

He only had pictures of his elderly mother at her home, and his son Muhammad and his daughter Nawwar, who only saw her father behind bars.

The mother still remembers the last breakfast in Ramadan with Yasser twenty years ago, when he went out to work and never came back after that, large forces of the Israeli occupation army who brought in helicopters and military vehicles arrested him and wreaked havoc in the house.

His mother tells Al-Jazeera Net that his father died seven years after his arrest, which left heartbreak that led to him suffering from intestinal cancer, she says.

A long wait
and Yasser receives treatment in families, but he is not in the required form, according to his mother, who is still waiting for his return while she is alive, but her main concern now is that the Corona virus does not reach him, which may worsen his health.

The need or Yasser started her speech with a clear calmness, before she pulled a deep breath and cried over her son, after she remembered the details of the twenty years and her suffering in her, considering that the hope in God is great.

His 20-year-old daughter Nawwar brought breakfast to her grandmother, recalling that the first word she said was "daddy".

Nowar is studying pharmacy and knows just as a student in a medical specialty that her father’s health condition is not good, and he is badly healthy, in light of the spread of the Corona virus, which requires isolation and non-mixing treatment. How will sick prisoners complete their lives in prisons in light of medical negligence and Corona?

She appealed for help in living with her father, hugging him, and feeling the sense that there would be support.

Rabaia is one of about seven hundred Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs consider that they are subjected to deliberate medical neglect in normal circumstances, and the matter is made worse by the spread of a pandemic sweeping the world.

700 sick prisoners:
According to Hassan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for the Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority, there are various and various diseases inside prisons. There are between 250 and 300 prisoners who need continuous medical follow-up, treatments and medical supervision.

In his interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Abd Rabo considered that Yasser Rabai'a was among ten prisoners suffering from cancer inside prisons, and he is also among the 540 prisoners who were sentenced to life imprisonment for one time and more.

Residents express their fear that the Corona virus will reach the sick prisoners, not from their relatives or their attorneys, but rather from jailers, investigators, repressive forces, and others who mix with them from Israeli society, which suffers from an outbreak of the disease. They say that the prison administration with all of its teams does not care much about treating, protecting and quarrying prisoners, and it carelessly deals with them.