(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Palestinian detained by Israel and on hunger strike for over two months has lost his ability to speak and most of his hearing, his lawyer and family said yesterday.
Mohamed al-Qiq's condition is "very dangerous. He lost his ability to speak and 60% of his hearing," his lawyer Jawad Boulus said in a statement.
Boulus visited Qiq yesterday at the Emek Medical Centre in the northern Israeli city of Afula, where he is being treated.
Speaking at a press conference, Qiq's wife Faihaa said doctors had told her family that her husband could no longer speak.
"What are they waiting for in order to release my husband or look into his arrest?" she asked, and answered: "Until he suffers a brain haemorrhage or becomes a martyr.