NABLUS, West Bank June 23 (IslamOnline.net) - Palestinian detainees lastly broke their silence and spoke about their "unspeakable" conditions inside the Israeli jails in a rare telephone conversation, which revealed how merciless the Israeli jailers were.

A Palestinian detainee in the notorious Israeli Naqab prison, one of many others, told IslamOnline.net Monday, June 23, by a cellular phone smuggled to his cell about his distress of undergoing a two-hour medical operation by an Israeli surgeon to remove his appendix without being anesthetized.

“He (the Israeli surgeon) shrugged off all feelings of mercy and noble meanings that characterize his profession and ignored that I am a human being…He showed his true face as an occupier. He take up his scalper as his rifle and was highly driven by this sense of cruelty," Anas Kamel Shahada, 24, told IOL.

“My suffering has begun when the doctor of the detention camp decided to refer me to Soroka hospital in Israel to perform some medical examinations, after I felt severe pain in my abdomen,” Shahada, a Ramallah native, said.

He continued: “Handcuffed as I was, I arrived to the hospital and made some medical examinations…The surgeon then decided to remove my appendix. Shortly afterwards, I was driven to the operation room.”

“Suddenly, the doctor gave his orders to the guards to put me on bed and tie my hands and feet and asked a nurse to prepare me for the operation,” he added.

“I was expecting that I would be anaesthetized…All of a sudden, the doctor held his scalpel in his hand to start his operation. I got furious and asked him if he wanted to anesthetize me, but my words fell on deaf ears.

“I got anxious and started shouting for help but to no avail…I went into a coma upon spotting the blood gushing forth and feeling the severe pain. Yet, nothing moved the heart of the Israeli doctor, who wore his cruel heart on his sleeves," he said.

“Nurses gave me an electric shock to regain my consciousness; yet, the pains I experienced and the flowing blood led me to lose my unconsciousness again,” said the underweight Palestinian detainee.

“The surgery, which was supposed to alleviate my pains, was a nightmarish experience…I felt as if lava was inside my abdomen. Upon ending the surgery, I was allowed to stay for only one day in the hospital, following which I was returned to the detention camp,” Shahada said.

Shahada, a student of electronic engineering in Beirut University, was not the only victim of medical negligence inside Israeli prisons. The experience of some was far more dramatic.

Unfortunately, some cases ended in death - or to be more accurate, in martyrdom - like that of the Palestinian detainee Ma’azouz Ahmed Dalal.

Occupation forces arrested Dalal while attempting to travel for undergoing a surgery, as he suffered from a muscular rupture as well as some problem in the backbone.

Due to constant arrests and investigations as well as medical negligence, Dalal faced health complications. His health deteriorated day after day and he started to be semi-conscious and unable to move and lost weight, until he was moved to the intensive care unit, where he spent around 40 days until he breathed his last.

“There are about 700 Palestinians suffering from various diseases in the prisons of Israel. Such cases are neglected and face cruel detention circumstances that lack the minimum of health care,” Palestinian Detainee Club said in a report published in May 2003.

Another report of the club, published on June 8, 2003, pointed out that the number of sick prisoners in the desert Naqab prisons amount to 200 out of 1170 prisoners.

Sixty prisoners out of the 200 suffer from stomach inflammation and ulcers, 13 suffer from dermal diseases, 22 from eye diseases, 25 from abdominal diseases, 15 from psychological diseases, 15 from bone joint diseases, five from ear diseases and eight from different other diseases.

"There are 22 cases that need surgeries," the report said.

There are around 8000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, distributed among 22 prisons, detention camps and concentration camps, of whom 1100 are administrative detainees.