A Palestinian boy whose case became a lightning rod for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now a man languishing in solitary confinement and is schizophrenic. His ordeal has become a warning on the impact of the Mideast conflict on the younger generation.
Ahmad told his lawyer he drank bleach on Tuesday. Just hours later, the Israeli attorney general asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal for Ahmad’s early release, declaring that even if prisoners would ordinarily be eligible for release after completing two-thirds of their sentence, Ahmad — a “terror” convict— was not. The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear his case in the coming days.
For Ahmad’s family and supporters, his transformation from a child who cared for birds and loved soccer into a mentally ill high-security prisoner with a growing tendency toward despair is a dark warning about the violence of the Mideast conflict and its impact on the younger generation. “He speaks to no one but the worms on the cell floor,” he said. “He imagines someone is going to kill him. He imagines someone is chasing him.”
“They’re treated like adult security prisoners,” said Naji Abbas, case manager at the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights Israel.
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