Sick Prisoner Mo’tassem Raddad detained on 12/01/2006 for 20 years of imprisonment, has addressed a letter to the Palestinian people in the name of all the sick prisoners in the Ramla Prison Clinic through Hurryyat’s attorney, Ibtisam Al-Anati. The letter read as follows:
“We the sick prisoners in the Ramla prison Clinic write this letter from a place you all identify as a cemetery for the living, a place you all know is more of a prison clinic than a hospital, a place you persistently criticized on the course of years.
In this place we are parting on brother after the other whether as a martyr or sick on the verge of martyrdom as we serve our long terms and life sentences burdened with pain and paralyzed from our injuries. We have only one request from all hose with any live conscience, those who fear for their beloved, we have sacrificed our lives for you and for our homeland and thus ask of you to do whatever is possible in your hands to bring us all back safe in our land, among our people and families. We do not want to leave this place a martyr after another, we only long to be with you soon enough. We offer our utmost gratitude to the families of the detainees, and to all who contributed to sharing our cause in many aspects, whether officially or through the competent organizations, or among the people.”
Concerning the health conditions of the prisoners at the Ramla prison clinic, Al-Anati testified as of her meeting with the representative of sick prisoners at the prison clinic, Rateb Hreibat, that the number of prisoners has reached 14 after the transfer of detainees Mustafa Balut and Khaldoun Srouji to Megiddo Prison. The 14 prisoners are: Khalid al-Shawish, Shadi Daraghmeh, Ashraf Abu alHuda, Rateb Hreibat, Mansour Mewqada, Salah al-Titi, Yousif Nawajaa’, Nahed Al-Aqra, Iyad Radwan, Mo’tassem Raddad, Motaz Obeido, Anan Jallad, Mohammad Salaymeh. He also affirmed the absence of any change concerning the detention and health circumstances of the sick prisoners. The administration of the Ramla prison clinic have conducted a check-up for every department last week disregarding the prisoners’ health circumstances, they also confiscated some headphones and mirrors and haven’t returned them yet. According to Hreibat, Khalid al-Shawish has had a transplant in Assaf Harofeh Medical Center on 18/05/2015, and is in good condition. The Red Cross was able to visit on Sunday 31/05/2015 for the first time after the martyrdom of Prisoner Jaafar Awad.
Salah al-Titi stressed the necessity of following-up the cause of sick prisoners pointing out his own condition where he lives with one kidney, has a urine drainage bag on his side, and lives on painkillers as the only remedy for pain.