Public opinion statement

In the name of of Allah the Merciful
Public opinion statement
We are the family of the prisoner Ahmed Manasra, as we address the sons of our heroic Palestinian people with the highest expressions of appreciation and respect.
And as we wish our heroic families, a symbol of our dignity and pride, immediate freedom from the chains of dungeons, the torments of families, and the pain of absence.
We salute the legal and human rights institutions for their efforts in defending our prisoners in the occupation courts, which are considered one of the most important means of repression and confiscation of the rights of our prisoners.
Praying for our sick prisoners and prisoners a speedy recovery and well-deserved freedom.
The family of the prisoner Ahmed Manasra; The one who faced the clutches of the occupation when he killed his best friend, his cousin, the martyr Hassan Manasra, and arrested a thirteen-year-old child, who was known at the time, and still has the tag “I don’t remember.” follows:
1. We register our strong reservations about some of the publications and news that were recently published in the media and some social media pages about the prisoner Ahmed, without the family’s consent to respect their privacy, or to consult or obtain permission from them, and without careful consideration of the selection of terms and information, and we assume good faith In the media and social media activists, we ask for the approval of the family or its representative, to convey any news or information related to the prisoner Ahmed Manasra, and to respect his suffering and his giving to his homeland.
2. The family announces that their son Ahmed, who was arrested in infancy, was severely beaten, including a fracture of his skull, which caused an intracranial hematoma. He was also subjected to the harshest forms of physical torture and psychological intimidation, the use of a long, non-stop interrogation method, and deprivation of sleep and rest, and was subjected to great psychological pressures that a child at this age could not bear. until now.
3. In the context of revenge against the steadfast Palestinian childhood, the occupation isolated the prisoner Ahmed in most periods of captivity, in very difficult and intolerable conditions, and made him alone suffer from severe headaches, psychological distress and deprivation of mixing with the rest of the prisoners for long periods, and deprived his family of visiting him on the pretext Punishment, separating him completely from the rest of the prisoners and depriving him of the appropriate treatment to relieve the pain, which led to the emergence of psychological disorders, which exacerbated with the continued isolation and uprooting of his environment, his family and his companions in prison.
4. After the family learned about their son’s condition, they tried, through their lawyer and human rights institutions, to include a doctor and a psychiatrist to find out the developments in his condition, and after a long time and the legal, human rights and professional efforts of psychologists and social workers vigorously; He was visited by a psychiatrist, who decided after his visit that he suffers from a psychological disorder as a result of tyrannical and violent conditions, including fractures in the skull, and as a result of his isolation in a narrow cell and not allowing him to mix with the rest of the prisoners, and indicated that the medications he takes are not appropriate and increase the risk of death. The deterioration of his psychological condition and that he needs a proper professional diagnosis and treatment with appropriate medications and an end to his isolation in cells, and that the best treatment is the presence of a social incubator in prison rooms or in outer space that helps him to overcome the psychological crisis that the occupation helped and even worked to exacerbate by isolation and inappropriate treatment and excessive eating Narcotic and hypnotic drugs.
5. The family and the legal, medical, psychological and social staff tried to implement the recommendations of the psychiatrist after visiting her, the lonely and orphan, but without any response from the occupation authorities, which continue to deprive him of the correct medicines and put him in conditions of complete isolation without the slightest rights and deprive him of visiting his family or addressing them over the phone, And I made him a companion to the walls of the narrow cell, in pain and pain by himself, talking to himself, and living in a state of fantasies and dreams before which a person could not stand.
6. The family denounces and even deplores the occupation’s claim that isolating the prisoner Ahmed in a single isolation room came to protect him and the rest of the prisoners due to the deterioration of his psychological condition. In this context, the family affirms its absolute trust in the prisoners’ community incubator for all sick cases, especially in the follow-up with the captive, and the keenness to give medicines on time And the appropriate dose, and that the danger facing the prisoner Ahmed is caused and sourced only by the occupation and occupation, and that isolating him from the rest of the prisoners is a severe punishment, as if imprisonment alone is not enough to punish him! The family affirms that their son’s condition comes within a comprehensive system developed by the occupation to punish the prisoners, body, soul and family at the same time.
7. As the family holds the occupation and its various branches responsible for the physical, psychological and emotional state of the prisoner Ahmed, it affirms that the conditions that its son lives in are the same as those of the sick prisoners inside the occupation detention centers and that this reality and this painful reality necessitates the families of the prisoners, martyrs and the Palestinian people And the civil and official local and international legal institutions and international institutions to develop one unified strategy in the face of the occupation of the soul, body, home and Palestinian land and to address the violations of the occupation against the prisoners in general and the sick in particular.
8. The family affirms that the hashtag “I don’t remember” will remain the password for our children’s resilience in the face of the brutality and barbarism of the occupation and in the face of all its attempts to occupy us psychologically and destroy us from within.
Freedom for the brave prisoners
And healing for the families
Victory for every student is right
The family of the prisoner Ahmed Manasra
Jerusalem 02.23.2022