RAMALLAH, June 5, 2018 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) accused the Israel Prison Services (IPS) on Tuesday of responsibility for the loss of sight of a prisoner due to medical negligence.

PPS attorney Ahmad Safiyyeh said preliminary results for tests conducted on Tuesday for Hassan Tamimi, 18, at Shaare Tzedek hospital in West Jerusalem showed that he has totally lost sight in both his eyes.

He said the direct cause for his loss of sight was damage to the nerves of the eye due to medical negligence during his detention.

He said the IPS has stalled in providing Tamimi with medical care since his detention on April 7 despite its knowledge of his bad health condition and calls to provide him with special medical care and food due to his situation.

Tamimi, from Deir Nitham village near Ramallah, suffers from high protein in his blood, which demands that he takes daily medicine and special meals, neither of which were provided by the IPS leading to a serious deterioration in his health during his detention at Ofer military camp and prison near Ramallah.

PPS director Qaddoura Faris described the developments with Tamimi as a crime, calling on rights groups to intervene to put an end to what Palestinian prisoners have to go through in Israeli jails.

M.K.