Between Judicial Approval and Clinical Inaction: Withheld Care in the Detention of Mohyeddin Abdul Haq

Mohyeddin Tayseer Abdul Haq is struggling to move and now has to pray sitting down. That is the latest news to reach his family, who live in constant fear as the 28-year-old prisoner’s health declines in Israeli occupation prisons.

He was sick before he was arrested.

Mohyeddin has a blood disorder that breaks down his red blood cells, and it has sometimes required transfusions. At home, he needed ongoing treatment and monitoring, with specialized care from doctors familiar with the disorder. He relies on blood supplements, which he must take regularly. They keep his condition stable and help him get through the day.

His family has learned that he is in poor condition inside, and that the occupation’s prison authorities have denied him the treatment he needs. The authorities have his medical reports. A court has agreed that he must be treated. Prison doctors examine him and stop there. They have given him none of the treatment he needs, and his family’s fear for his life is growing.

How is he coping without that care, they ask, in prisons that detainees released since October 7, 2023, describe as lacking the most basic necessities of life?

The blood disorder is only one of his conditions. In 2022, he was shot in the right leg near the knee, and the old wound has at times made it hard for him to move the leg. He also has anemia and advanced scabies, and boils have broken out on his body.

He has dental problems that need a specialist, all the more so because he was born with a jaw defect that keeps him from opening his mouth normally. Correcting the defect will take surgery.

Israeli occupation forces arrested him on March 7, 2026. They had already tried to arrest him in December 2025 and again at the start of Ramadan. He was placed under administrative detention for four months, and the order was then renewed for four more. The renewal expires in November, and his family hopes his detention ends with it.

This is his fourth arrest. He was held for three months in 2017 and for a year in 2019. In 2023, he was arrested along with his brothers. They were freed after about a month. He was held for three.

Like other prisoners, Mohyeddin gets no news of his family at all, and they live with the same anxiety. Updates from his lawyer bring some comfort. But nothing replaces seeing their son, hearing his voice, and knowing for themselves that he is well.

Mohyeddin is a young man who works at a factory in the Nablus industrial zone. People know him for his gentle manner, his eagerness to help others, and the care he gives his family and community. His absence has left a hole in the lives of everyone who knows him.

His family is appealing for the treatment he needs, asking that it be allowed in before his condition gets worse.

Their son deserves to live free and in good health, they say, far from administrative detention and the medical neglect that threatens his life.