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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ex-prisoner on hunger strike over PA inaction
2011-11-11
Herewith demonstrating that once bad habits are established, they are very hard to break.
(Ma'an) -- A released Paleostinian prisoner, Amal Jumaa, 41, announced Thursday she had started a hunger strike because Paleostinian Authority officials have failed to provide her medical treatment.

Jumaa told Ma'an that she has been in hospital for 13 days and wanted to "officially announce today an open hunger strike because they failed to provide necessary treatment for me."

Fitna Abu Eisha, another recently released female prisoner, threatened Thursday that all the female former prisoners would join Jumaa's hunger strike if she was not transferred abroad for treatment. "We want Jumaa alive; we don't want to watch her die in front of us."

President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 "issued a directive to transfer me abroad for treatment. I've been waiting for days."

Jumaa was transferred to hospital days after her release from Israeli prison, says her brother Jameel. She belonged to Fatah's armed wing, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison and served nine.

Amal was hospitalized in Nablus for complications due to bleeding in her stomach. She suffers cancer of the uterus and other serious health issues complicated by her time in jail. Jumaa's hysterectomy was performed in an Israeli hospital.

Jumaa's family has said that their daughter's case was taken on by the office of the president. Her family is also asking officials to intervene and if possible send her to a hospital abroad.

On Thursday, Jumaa wondered aloud if the Paleostinian Authority wanted her die, asking why they didn't leave her in jail to hasten the process.
Perhaps they do want her to die. In my ignorance it sounds to me like the uterine cancer has metastasized, which means chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and/or additional surgery, none of which should be done until her pneumonia is cleared up. All in all, expensive, time consuming, and probably beyond the skills and equipment of the PA medical profession...at a time when the PA hasn't nearly enough for daily running expenses.
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