18 July 2011 - 19:30

The Palestinian center for detainee's reported Tuesday that a prisoner at Ramla prison hospital in Israel has become seriously ill.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Yousef Skafi, 42, has been on hunger strike for thirty eight days and refuses to take any medicine. His health has seriously deteriorated in recent days.

A lawyer from the center told Ma'an that Skafi no longer has the energy to speak.

Skafi went on hunger strike to protest against the medical neglect of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and against the inhumane treatment of prisoners by Israeli authorities.

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