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Current Urgent Appeal
Demand immediate release of disabled patient, Ahmad Asfour
Posted on: Saturday, March 12, 2011
 

Alert

 

URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UA 04/ 11.
NAME: Ahmad Asfour, 19
 VIOLATIONS: ISA exploitation of the patients’ medical status
Israel Securities Authority (ISA) appears to have a deliberate policy of misleading patients while taking advantage of their medical needs, in order to tempt them to come into contact with security officials.
Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he was severely injured outside his home during the invasion of Gaza on January 9, 2009. He was hit by a bomb, probably a D.I.M.E., launched by an unmanned drone. His body was penetrated and lacerated by metal fragments. His father said that Ahmad was in hospital in Egypt for 8 months and then a doctor recommended he go to Jerusalem for more treatment. Ahmed has diabetes, is wheelchair bound and needs more internal surgery. He had lost body parts, sections of his intestines and his pancreas.

Ahmad 'Asfour was invited to the St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem to receive a treatment that does not exist in Gaza. After his request for an exit permit was approved, he was arrested at the Erez border crossing, taken from his terrified father, along with his medicines and insulin. . For two weeks he was prevented from meeting a lawyer and his family was given no information about his condition or the reasons for his arrest.
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H.E. NAVENETHEM PILLAY, 
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Your Excellency
I appeal to you to urgently demand that the government of Israel immediately and unconditionally release Ahmad Asfour(19) who was arrested and detained illegally at the Erez border on 25 November 2009.
Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he was severely injured outside his home during the invasion of Gaza on January 9, 2009. He was hit by a bomb, probably a D.I.M.E., launched by an unmanned drone. His body was penetrated and lacerated by metal fragments. His father said that Ahmad was in hospital in Egypt for 8 months and then a doctor recommended he go to Jerusalem for more treatment. Ahmed has diabetes, is wheelchair bound and needs more internal surgery. He had lost body parts, sections of his intestines and his pancreas.

Ahmad 'Asfour was invited to the St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem to receive a treatment that does not exist in Gaza. After his request for an exit permit was approved, he was arrested at the Erez border crossing, taken from his terrified father, along with his medicines and insulin. . For two weeks he was prevented from meeting a lawyer and his family was given no information about his condition or the reasons for his arrest.
Samir now knows his son gave a forced confession after days of torture and is in prison in Beersheba. In spite of support from human rights and physicians’ groups, Ahmad is still in jail. Samir said," My son committed no crimes, he is sick and in pain. He cannot dress or care for himself. How is he surviving in prison?"
I urge you also to investigate other cases of patients who were told they could leave Gaza for medical care only to be arrested and transferred to Israeli detention facilities once at the crossing. This is an illegitimate practice that takes advantage of the patients' helplessness and turns medicine into a tool in the service of the security system.
Yours sincerely
Justice for Palestine Matters, 2006.
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