Agencies-Gaza post
Israel rejects severely burned detainee’s need to undergo surgeries
The Israeli jail authority rejected Palestinian detainee Israa Jaabis’s renewed call to undergo an operation to help her breathe.
Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation reported in a press statement on Wednesday that Israel must be held responsible for the repercussions of rejecting Jaabis’s demand.
Spokesman of the Palestinian Movement Al-Ahrar, Yasser Khalaf, said that rejecting Jaabis’s need and neglecting her desperate need to undergo an operation to help her breathe reflects Israeli cruelty.
The 38-year-old Jaabis is serving an 11-year sentence in an Israeli jail after she was “convicted of tried murder”, while in fact a gas cylinder in her car accidentally blew up near an Israeli military checkpoint in 2015. The incident was viewed by the Israeli army as attempted murder.
As a result of the burst, 50% of her body was distorted and her fingers were amputated. She needs to undergo eight surgeries at least to return to a semi-normal life. Jaabis is married and is a mother of a kid.
