APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Hebron - 19 April 2021. The mother of sick Palestinian prisoner at Israeli jails Iyad Haribat, 38, speaks to media at her home in the West Bank city of Hebron.
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) The mother of sick Palestinian prisoner at Israeli jails Iyad Haribat
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Israel arrested Haribat in 2002 and sentenced him to life in prison plus 20 years.
The prisoner suffers from a deteriorating health condition, as he suffered since 2014 with a neurological disease that causes him to constantly shiver in his body, and in the recent period he is no longer able to move normally and cannot stand on his feet and uses the wheelchair to meet his needs, and he also complains of constant pain and aches all over His body.
According to Palestinian estimates, there are 4,400 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, including 39 women and 155 children, and around 350 being held under Israel’s administrative detention policy, which allows holding Palestinians without charge or trial.
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