Rights groups and activists launched an international campaign calling on the Israeli occupation to release the injured young detainee, Ahmed Manasra.

For its part, Manasra’a family solicited everyone's support to join and take urgent action to save their son’s life, who vowed to take his revenge on the Israeli occupying forces who had killed, with cold blood, his cousin, Hassan Manasra.

The family explained that their son, Ahmed, was detained when only 13 and was subjected to the harshest forms of oppression and intimidation.

The family indicated that Ahmed was subjected to the harshest types of physical torture and psychological intimidation, deprivation of sleep and rest, and great psychological pressures that a child at this age could not bear. As a result of physical torture and psychological abuse, Ahmed suffered and still suffers from severe headaches and chronic pain.

In the context of revenge against the steadfast Palestinian childhood, the family stated that the occupation has put Ahmed in solitary confinement in most periods of detention, in very difficult and intolerable circumstances, and deprived his family of visiting him as a kind of psychological punishment.

The family held the Israeli occupation accountable for the physical, psychological, and emotional condition of Ahmed, stressing that the conditions experienced by their son are the same as those of the sick detainees inside the occupation jails.

The family stressed that the painful reality Palestinian detainees go through makes it imperative for the Palestinian people, its leadership, and factions, along with the civil and official local and international human rights institutions, to become united in their strategy of facing the Israeli occupation authorities’ violations against the Palestinian detainees in general and sick detainees in particular.

The Israeli occupation had seriously injured Ahmed Manasra and murdered his cousin, Hassan, on Dec 10, 2015, then he was brutally assaulted by colonial settlers who had beat and trampled on him before he was detained by the Israeli occupation forces.

Manasra was subjected to a very harsh investigation on the grounds of attempting to carry out a stabbing operation in the occupied city of Jerusalem with his cousin, and the occupation sentenced him to 9 and a half years and a heavy fine of 46,000 dollars.