Palestinian Israa Jaabis Officially Released from Israeli Prison
- Aljazeera.com
Damaged on the inside, physically burned, and in great pain, Jaabis said last week, in a letter dictated to his lawyer, that she did not receive adequate medical care from the Israeli Prison System (IPS).
She suffers from first and third-degree burns on 60 percent of his body, and relies on fellow prisoners to help him perform simple tasks, leaving him feeling "humiliated".
Eight of her fingers were amputated due to melting from the burns. She was unable to raise her arms fully because the skin of her armpits stuck together. Her right ear was almost non-existent and always had inflammation.
And her nose has a gaping hole on one side; she breathes mostly through her mouth. She also suffers from a nervous breakdown, shock, and a severe psychological crisis.
Car explosion
On October 10, 2015, Jaabis was moving furniture in his car to his home in the Jabal Al-Mukaber neighborhood in Jerusalem when, 500 meters from the al-Zayyim checkpoint in Jerusalem, he lost control of his vehicle.
The "Knife Intifada" or "October Uprising", characterized by individual attacks that ranged from stabbings, car rammings, and, to a lesser extent, shootings, mostly carried out by Palestinians in their teens and twenties who were not affiliated with political factions, began.
Israeli soldiers shouted to Jaabis to stop his car, which turned into an adjacent lane. Suddenly, there was the sound of an explosion inside the car.