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26 May 2022

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Israel rejects severely burned prisoner’s demand to undergo operation

The Israeli prison authority has rejected Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis’s renewed demand to undergo an operation to help her breathe.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Israeli prison authority has rejected Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis’s renewed demand to undergo an operation to help her breathe.

Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation said in a press statement on Wednesday that Israel must be held responsible for the repercussions of rejecting Jaabis’s demand.

For his part, the spokesman of the Palestinian Movement Al-Ahrar, Yasser Khalaf, told Quds Press that rejecting Jaabis’s demand and neglecting her desperate need to undergo an operation to help her breathe reflects Israeli brutality.

The 38-year-old Jaabis is serving an 11-year sentence in Israeli prison after she was “convicted of attempted murder”, while in fact a gas cylinder in her car accidentally blew up near an Israeli military checkpoint in 2015. The incident was considered by the Israeli army as an attempted murder.

As a result of the explosion, 50% of her body was deformed and her fingers were amputated. She needs to undergo eight surgeries at least to return to semi-normal life. Jaabis is married and is a mother of a child



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