RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) released on Monday evening the Palestinian cancer patient and detainee, Abdel Baset Ma’tan, 50, from the town of Burqa near Ramallah, after spending 22 months in administrative detention in Israeli jails.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that Ma’tan was released from Negev Prison, where most stories of torture and abuse against Palestinian prisoners have been taking place.
The PPS added in a statement that the released prisoner was subjected to a series of criminal practices during his arrest including medical negligence in addition to starvation policy that caused Ma’tan to lose weight severely. He was left with bruises throughout his body as part of the Israeli revenge and torture procedures pursued against Palestinian detainees since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
The PPS pointed out that Ma’tan has been subjected, along with thousands of prisoners, to brutal assaults by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) despite the fact that he has been suffering from colon cancer. He was denied the minimum treatment required, it added.
The freed captive Ma’tan spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails. Only one of his arrests was based on a charge whereas the rest had no trials or charges as he was held under the illegal administrative detention. His last detention was shortly after being released from a previous detention during which he did not receive the necessary treatment.
The Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are currently living under hard detention conditions, with escalating numbers of sick prisoners, the majority of them are suffering from diseases of varying degrees in addition to torture, starvation and medical crimes.
