The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Saturday that the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, is going through very difficult health conditions in the Negev prison in southern Israel.
Club spokesman Amjad Al-Najjar explained to Anadolu Agency that Al-Dweik is currently in the Negev Desert Prison, and is suffering from very difficult health conditions.
He added that Dweik also suffers from anemia and hemoglobin deficiency due to diabetes, explaining that he had previously undergone two catheterization operations and fragmentation of kidney stones.
Since his arrest, Al-Dweik has not received appropriate medical treatment, and his family and children are demanding that she be allowed to visit him to check on his health condition, according to Al-Najjar.
Al-Najjar pointed out that Al-Dweik (75 years old) has been detained since last October 17, and an administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of 6 months.
Administrative detention is a detention decision ordered by an Israeli military under the pretext of a “security threat,” without an indictment, extending to 6 months, which can be extended.
Al-Dweik, who is from the city of Hebron (south), assumed the presidency of the Legislative Council since the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) won the majority of the council’s seats in the parliamentary elections in 2006, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Constitutional Court in Ramallah decided to dissolve the council in late 2018.
Since the seventh of last October, the Israeli army has launched widespread arrests in the West Bank, affecting as of Friday evening 4,675 Palestinian men and women, while the number of administrative detention orders reached 2,345.
Until the end of last November, prisoner institutions estimated the number of detainees in Israeli prisons at about 7,800.
The Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, which, as of Friday morning, left 20,57 martyrs and 53,320 wounded, most of them children and women, massive infrastructure destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip and the United Nations.