The news of the death of the prisoner, Nasser Abu Hamid, was not excluded. He was suffering and enduring pain and suffering inside the walls of Israeli prisons over the past years, until his health deteriorated recently and yesterday he entered a coma that put him in a critical condition.
Abu Hamid’s mother was watching her watch from one minute to the next, hoping to embrace her son for the last time, until he allowed her to do so yesterday after he was transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, a short distance away from Ramla Hospital, where he was staying after his condition deteriorated.
Nasser in brief
Nasser Muhammad Yousef Abu Hamid was born on October 5, 1972, to a refugee family from the northern village of Sawafir, near Gaza. He lived for years with his family in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, before moving to the Jalazoun camp in Ramallah.
He faced arrest for the first time when he was 11 and a half years old and was released days later.
He belonged to the “Fatah” movement, and was one of its cadres in the first intifada, and the masses in the demonstrations chanted his name personally.
He was arrested for the first time, before the 1987 uprising, and spent four months. He was rearrested again, and the occupation sentenced him to two and a half years in prison. He was released to be rearrested for the third time in 1990, and the occupation sentenced him to life imprisonment. He spent four years of his sentence, when he was released with the releases that took place. As part of the negotiations, he was rearrested in 1996 and served three years.
He was wounded several times by the Israeli occupation bullets, and one of them was severe.
With the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, Nasser became one of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and was later arrested and became one of the leaders of the captive movement after his arrest in 2002.
Nasser belongs to a struggling family that offered martyrs and prisoners and suffered persecution and the demolition of their home, but they did not surrender.
He was martyred by his brother Abdel Moneim Abu Hamid in 1994, and he has 4 brothers who were imprisoned during the second intifada. A soldier of the Duvdovan unit was killed when it stormed the Al-Amari camp.
The occupation demolished the house of the Abu Hamid family five times, and prevented his mother from visiting him for years. His mother was dubbed “Khansa’a Palestine” and “The Oak of Palestine.” His father died while he was in prison, and he was unable to participate in the funeral of his body.
Nasser Abu Hamid spent about 30 years in the occupation prisons, after being sentenced to life imprisonment 7 times and 50 years.
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