NABLUS, (PIC)-- Hamas MPs in Nablus on Wednesday appealed to human rights groups and official institutions to immediately intervene to save the life of Tarek Al-Asy, who is held in Israeli occupation authority (IOA) jails.

Family of the prisoner said that Asy had contracted colon cancer a while ago and that his health condition was worsening.

The lawmakers asked decision-makers and societies concerned with prisoners affairs to immediately act to demand his release and to extend appropriate treatment for him until he is actually released.

The deputies charged the IOA with deliberately neglecting prisoners in general and the patients in particular, warning that such a policy was endangering the lives of many sick prisoners.