Waed society for prisoners revealed on Tuesday that the number of cancer patients held in Israeli occupation prisons had risen to 26.
It said in a statement that prisoner Mahmoud Abu Saleh, from Doura village in Al-Khalil, was diagnosed with throat cancer.
The society said that Abu Saleh is serving a 25-year sentence and has served 11 years so far.
It charged the Israeli prison service with deliberately neglecting Abu Saleh’s treatment, warning that he might meet the same fate of prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiya, who died of cancer while in Israeli captivity.
The society drew the attention to the rising number of prisoners suffering chronic and serious diseases in Israeli jails, and blamed the Red Cross and the World Health Organization for remaining silent vis-à-vis such phenomenon.
