On Wednesday, December 20, a photo began circulating on social media
that sparked sadness, outrage, and fear among Palestinians.

It was a side-by-side comparison of 30-year-old Farouq Ahmad Issa,
before and after a stint in Israeli prison. The “before” photo shows a
smiling Farouq, and by all accounts, a healthy 30-year-old man. The
“after” photo shows a pained, emaciated and gaunt man, reduced to skin
and bones, lying on a hospital bed being caressed by his mother.

The photo of Farouq, his head shaved, hollowed eyes, emaciated body
and sunken face, quickly went viral, with the initial post shared by
Quds News Network reaching well over 8 million views on X. Many people
on the platform compared the image of Farouq to those of Jewish
prisoners who were starved and tortured in Nazi concentration camps
during the Holocaust.

Many speculated as to what caused such a severe deterioration in
Farouq’s condition. Was it torture? Starvation? Medical neglect? All
tactics that have been widely reported by human rights groups and
Palestinians recently released from Israeli custody.

According to his family, Farouq was subjected to everything: beatings,
the deprivation of food, and medical neglect. It was the medical
neglect, however, that they say is what led Farouq to where he is now:
receiving palliative care at a Ramallah hospital, waiting for death to
knock on his door.

“We still can’t really process or understand how we got here,” Husam
Issa, 33, Farouq’s older brother, told Mondoweiss. “We are shocked and
devastated. The doctors told us there is nothing we can do except pray
for mercy from God.”

Thrown in administrative detention

Farouq, a resident of the Ramallah-area village of Abu Skheidim in the
occupied West Bank, was arrested in late August by the Israeli
military. The arrest came as a shock to the family, who had only just
gotten Farouq back home two months prior, after he completed a four
year sentence in Israeli prison.

Farouq was sentenced by an Israeli military court to six months in
administrative detention, a policy that allows Israel to imprison
Palestinians indefinitely without charge or trial. The policy is
frequently weaponized against former prisoners like Farouq to allow
Israel to throw them back in prison under closed files of “secret
evidence.” In short, neither Farouq nor his family were told why he
was arrested and put back in jail for another six months.

“For the first month or so of his detention, as far as we knew, things
were okay. His lawyer was in contact with him, and health-wise,
everything was fine,” Husam told Mondoweiss.

But on October 7, everything changed.

After Hamas’s attack on October 7, Israel began cracking down on
Palestinians everywhere, including inside Israeli prisons. Israeli
prison authorities conducted widespread raids, transferring prisoners,
confiscating their personal belongings, limiting their food intake,
and shutting them out from the outside world. That meant no
televisions to watch the news, no lawyer visits, and no family visits.

“All of a sudden, we stopped hearing any news from Farouq and his
lawyer. No one could go visit him or even speak to him. But as far as
we knew, everything was fine,” Husam said.

In late November, after not hearing from Farouq for more than a month,
his family got a knock at their door. It was a young man from the
area, recently released from prison, who had urgent news about Farouq.

“Do you know what’s happening to your brother?” Husam recounted,
repeating the first question asked by the young man, who said he was
in the same prison as Farouq before he was released.

“When we told him that we didn’t know what he was talking about, he
told us that our brother was dying. And we needed to save him before
it was too late,” Husam said.

Beatings and medical neglect

Through information gathered from the young man, as well as Farouq
after he was released, the family was able to piece together what
happened to him.

After October 7, Israeli prison authorities began conducting frequent
and arbitrary prison transfers — a common tactic of collective
punishment used against Palestinian prisoners, meant to tire them
mentally and physically by breaking apart any political groups
organized in prison, splitting prisoners up from cellmates with whom
they may have formed bonds after longer sentences, and by subjecting
them to arduous journeys between prisons.

During one such prisoner transfer from the Ofer prison in Ramallah to
the Nafha prison, located in the Naqab desert, Farouq was badly beaten
by Israeli prison guards along with several other Palestinian
prisoners.

According to Husam, an Israeli prison guard forcefully hit Farouq in
the stomach with what he described as a large iron baton.

It wasn’t long after that Farouq began experiencing a number of
symptoms, including severe abdominal pain and stomach swelling. When
Farouq requested medical care, he was denied and thrown by Israeli
guards into solitary confinement instead, where he was subjected to
sleep and food deprivation.

Farouq’s condition continued to deteriorate, with his stomach swelling
to “the size of a watermelon.” He experienced weakness, vomiting, and
dyschezia, and at one point, he was unable to pass a bowel movement
for several weeks. Farouq began losing weight rapidly, with his family
saying he lost more than 30 kilograms (66 pounds) in the span of a
month.

With his health severely deteriorating, he was transferred to the
Ramleh prison clinic, an Israeli prison clinic notorious for its
medical neglect of sick Palestinian prisoners. There, he was treated
with painkillers. With no real medical care to address his serious
ailments, his health continued to deteriorate.

Eventually, Farouq’s condition became so serious that he was admitted
to an Israeli hospital, the Soroka Medical Center, on November 29. For
several days, he underwent a number of tests and procedures. A week
later, he was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer and began
receiving a number of intravenous drugs to help with the pain. A week
after he received his diagnosis, he was transferred back to the
custody of Israeli Prison Service (IPS) doctors.

During the entire ordeal, Farouq’s family was unaware of what was
happening to him and that he was being diagnosed by Israeli doctors
with terminal cancer.

“We still had no information about him, but every day after the young
man visited us to tell us about Farouq’s condition, we were doing
everything we could to try and reach him or get any information about
him,” Husam told Mondoweiss.

“We contacted everybody. Human rights groups, prisoners’ groups,
lawyers, PA officials — everybody. Just to try and get someone to be
able to visit him and assess his condition.”

According to Husam, every appeal from all the organizations,
officials, and lawyers that contacted the IPS on behalf of the family
was refused.

‘He came back as skin and bones’

After nearly a month of trying to obtain any information about Farouq,
the family got a call from their lawyer on December 20, saying he was
informed by the IPS that he would be able to visit Farouq in prison.

“We were relieved, but then just one hour later, we got another call
saying that Farouq was going to be dropped off at the Nil’in
checkpoint near Ramallah and that we should go pick him up,” Husam
said.

“We were shocked and confused because Farouq still had two months left
on his administrative detention order. And they [Israel] don’t just
release anyone like that,” Husam said, adding that the family rushed
to the checkpoint, fearful of the state in which they would find their
son.

Their worst fears were confirmed when they saw Farouq approaching
them.

“We didn’t recognize him. We were totally shocked. It was a horrifying
sight. He looked like skin and bones,” Husam recounted.

The family rushed Farouq to a hospital in Ramallah, where doctors did
a number of tests to confirm the diagnosis given by Israeli doctors:
Farouq had terminal stomach cancer that was spreading to other parts
of his body. He didn’t have much time left, and all the family could
do was give him palliative care.

“I can’t believe it. Now we are just waiting for him to die,” Husam
said, expressing shock and disbelief held by his family. “When Farouq
left us, he was perfectly healthy. When he returned, he came back a
ghost.”

The family is unsure about what role the heavy beating that Farouq
took in Israeli prison contributed to his health situation. They are
sure, however, that the medical neglect faced by Farouq played a part
in his deterioration.

“For weeks, Farouq was complaining to them about his pain, but they
did nothing. They waited until he got so bad that they had no choice
but to take him to the hospital,” Husam said, adding that the family
believes if he had been treated when he first began exhibiting
symptoms, maybe things would have ended up differently.

“The Israelis did not give him a chance for treatment. They also
didn’t give him a chance to inform his family, nor did they inform us
themselves,” Husam said. “This is a crime — what was done to him and
to us, his family.”

“If it weren’t for his cellmate who was released from prison, we
wouldn’t know anything about Farouq. Maybe he would have died in
prison, and we wouldn’t have known until it was too late.”

Because 'its primal Oneness produces the myriad things, the Tao in its
totality lies essentially beyond mere human comprehension. Certain broad
patterns of cosmic activity, however, are discernible to Man. For example,
the superior man takes primal oneness as his model when dealing with
others. Single­minded in his pursuit of moral #502 - *UNDERSTANDING* and
unshakeable in his integrity, he "holds fast to the One" Way. Applying the
single tool of categorical logic to the entire universe, he comes to grasp
all the myriad things within his mind, so all ­encompassing is his
understanding. Conformity with such sacred norms gains him charismatic
power that will work to effect a perfect union of all the myriad things in
the cosmos. Above and below, inner unity brings the union of all." [CANON
OF SUPREME MYSTERY (4 BCE), Nylan 1993, page 315]

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This might then have a metalogic / jurisprudent bearing on the PALESTINIAN
/ ISRAELI CONFLICT in which HAMAS is engaged as OPERATION AL AQSA FLOOD and
so we include a brief commentary on such. Given the ROMAN worldview of 1
AD being both the implementation of the 365.25 days solar Julian calendar
and a 19 year metonic cycle, it is possible to view the THEORY OF NUMBER
(@1 - 505 CE, @5 - 671 CE) IMMATERIALITY as having a chronological
dependency (ie. the KABBALAH MALKUTH AS 505 CE THEN EQUATES TO HORUS IN THE
BIPARTITE NUMBER NOMENCLATURE v's TETRA #54 - UNITY IN THE TRIPARTITE
NOMENCLATURE IN ADDITION TO BEING A META DEFINITION FOR NUMBER) associated
to the traditional account, the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca,
an important caravan trading centre, around the year 570 CE. The start of
Islam is marked in the year 610, following the first revelation to the
prophet Muhammad at the age of 40.

The Arab raid against Rome took place in 846 CE. Muslim raiders plundered
the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's
and St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls, but were prevented from entering the city
itself by the Aurelian Walls. The Arabs struck following the *TIBER*
*RIVER* and the Ostiense and Portuense roads, as the Roman militia hastily
retreated to the safety of the Roman walls.

IF THE BIRTH OF MUHAMMAD IN 570 CE - #505 (10x10) = #65 - INNER / JIHAD <--
CULT OF PERSONALITY?

IF THE RAMPAGE AGAINST ROME IN 846 CE - #671 (11x11) = #175 - EQUATES TO
ONTIC AND DEME IMPERATIVES <-- WOMAN WITH CHILD

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[IMAGES: (left) Christmas is cancelled (nativity scene with #228 - bᵉkôwr
(H1060): *FIRSTBORN* #449 - *SWADDLED* by #516 - KEFFIYEH surrounded by
anthropic #298 - *ROCK* debris) in BETHLEHEM due to the ongoing #808 -
*GENOCIDE* in GAZA, with (middle) CARDINAL PIERBATTISTA PIZZABALLA (born 21
APRIL 1965) as the Latin Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in JERUSALEM
(est. 1099 following First Crusade conquest) wearing the Palestinian #516 -
KEFFIYEH (Arabic: كوفية, romanized: kūfiyya) / kâçâh (H3680): *TO* *COVER*,
*CLOTHE* *OR* *CONCEAL* / TETRAD #65 - INNER (NEI) which is a distinctly
patterned black and white scarf usually worn around the neck or head. That
has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism dating back to the 1936–1939
Arab (#324 - ʻĂrâbîy (H6163): *ARABIANS* [Jeremiah 3:2]) revolt in
Palestine against the BRITISH ADMINISTRATION of the PALESTINE MANDATE.

(right) MARY MAGDALENE (ie. IRISH CATHOLIC #298 - WASHER #449 - WOMAN WITH
NAKED CHILD) #808 - *GENOCIDE* STATUE (#228 - bᵉkôwr (H1060): *FIRSTBORN*,
*FIRSTLING*) with #516 - KEFFIYEH on #228 - 28 NOVEMBER 2023 possessing an
innate treasonous contention against JEWISH / CHRISTIAN belief given the
TORAH historical precedent #298 - *HEBREW* (H5680) #449 - *MIDWIVES*
(H3205) ATTENDING UPON ISSUE FROM THE #808 - *WOMB* (H7356) HAVING ADVERSE
REPERCUSSIONS UPON #44 - *MALE* *OFFSPRING* (H3206) which then predicated
[#69, #45, #21, #61, #37 - PURITY (TS'UI), #13 - INCREASE (TSENG)] the
EXODUS (#477 - hâlak (H1980) as MALE: #233, FEME: #153, [Exodus 3:19]) from
EGYPT]

#702 - DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #175 as [#300, #10, #2, #5, #100, #10, #1, #4,
#70, #200] = Tiberiás (G5085): {UMBRA: #628 % #41 = #13} 0) Tiberias =
'from the Tiber (as river-god)'; 1) a city of Galilee near the Lake of
Gennesaret, which Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, greatly enlarged and
beautified in 20 CE and was subject to the OTTOMAN EMPIRE from 1515 to
1917, and named Tiberias in *HONOUR* *OF* *TIBERIAS* *CAESAR*;

#831 - DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #175 as [#5, #80, #5, #40, #700, #1] = pémpō
(G3992): {UMBRA: #1005 % #41 = #21} 1) to send; 1a) to bid a *THING* *TO*
*BE* *CARRIED* *TO* *ONE*; 1b) to send (thrust or insert) a thing into
another;

#351 - DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #175 as [#5, #300, #40, #6] = shâmêm (H8074):
{UMBRA: #380 % #41 = #11} 1) to be desolate, be appalled, stun, stupefy;
1a) (Qal); 1a1) to be desolated, be deflowered, be deserted, be appalled;
1a2) to be appalled, be awestruck; 1b) (Niphal); 1b1) *TO* *BE*
*DESOLATED*, *BE* *MADE* *DESOLATE*; 1b2) to be appalled; 1c) (Polel); 1c1)
to be stunned; 1c2) appalling, causing horror (participle); i)
horror-causer, appaller (subst); 1c3) (Hiphil); i) to devastate, ravage,
make desolated; ii) to appal, show horror; 1c4) (Hophal) to lay desolate,
be desolated; 1c5) (Hithpolel); i) to cause to be desolate; ii) to be
appalled, be astounded; iii) to cause oneself desolation, cause oneself
ruin;

ONTIC: #175 - I AM NOT A TRANSGRESSOR {%22}

DEME: #108 + #67 - DARKENING (HUI)

If one further considers the Eastern Roman Empire / Byzantium, which was
officially still the Roman Empire, then the Muslim Ottomans finally
defeated the 'Roman Empire' in 1453 with the fall of Constantinople. For
centuries the Seljuks and then Ottomans had been eating away at Byzantine
territory.

#1453 as [#5, #20, #80, #30, #8, #100, #800, #200, #10, #200] = ekplḗrōsis
(G1604): {UMBRA: #1453 % #41 = #18} 1) a *COMPLETING*, fulfilment;

G1604@{
Male: #464; Feme: #319
} // #1453

#750 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #464 as [#1, #50, #300, #10, #4, #10, #1, #300,
#9, #9, #5, #40, #1, #10] = antidiatíthemai (G475): {UMBRA: #751 % #41 =
#13} 1) *TO* *PLACE* *ONE'S* *SELF* *IN* *OPPOSITION*, *TO* *OPPOSE*, *TO*
*DISPOSE**IN* *TURN*, to take in hand in turn, to retaliate;

#805 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #319 as [#5, #80, #10, #2, #70, #400, #30, #8,
#200] = epiboulḗ (G1917): {UMBRA: #605 % #41 = #31} 1) *A* *PLAN* *FORMED*
*AGAINST* *ONE*, *A* *PLOT*;

By the time of prophet Muhammad's death on 8 JUNE 632, he was the effective
ruler of all southern Arabia, and his missionaries, or legates, were active
in the Eastern Empire, Persia and Ethiopia.

[#68 - RIGHTS, #11 - GOVERNMENT & NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS: #8 -
TRANSFORMING NATURE (4TH DOUBLE: #4 - NATURE AMENDED IN ITS NATURE (#7 -
ENGENDERING NATURE)), #44 - ACTIONABLE LAWFUL CONDUCT (#495 - agorázō
(G59): TRANSACTIONAL)] /

[#17 - ôwb (H2895): *ACT* *RIGHT*, #41, #65 - *TENET*] /

[#38 - 8 JUNE 2017 (*) STATUE PLAQUE INSTALLATION, #71 - SAINT PATRICK'S
DAY STATUE UNVEILING (*) / DOMINION v's MITHRAISM AS SOLDIERS OF THE
IMPERIUM, #14 - 28 MAY 2017 / 2023 (*) BOER WAR MEMORIAL INFIDELITY / ROTAS
- TENET - SATOR SQUARE]

(* noumenon referencing) EXHIBITING EVIDENCE OF OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
CLAIM

That they have no knowledge of a TRIPARTITE NUMBER means their achilles
heal is therefore #108 as then the BIPARTITE NUMBER (ie. 10 x #108 = #1080
- héteros (G2087): to number as opposed to some former person or thing;
another: one not of the same nature, form, class, kind, different)
PROTOTYPE #FOUR upon which their PYTHAGOREAN worldview consists and thereby
the OPERATION AL AQSA FLOOD is a substantiative cause for JEWISH
repossession of the precinct to which is provided a meta logic /
jurisprudent grounding (ie. the BIPARTITE (@1 - 505 CE --> #65 - *JIHAD*,
@5 - 671 CE --> #175 - WOMAN WITH CHILD) NUMBER IMMATERIAL GROUNDING v's
#1515 = #491 + #492 + #532 - émphytos (G1721): *IMPLANTED* *BY* *NATURE* /
*OTHERS* *INSTRUCTION* within the #1515 - Ioudaïkōs (G2452): *JEWISH* life
of piety and collectively as #1515 - synagōgḗ (G4864): *SYNAGOGUE*)
associated to the "COUNCIL (ie. SANHEDRIN), A PHARISEE, NAMED GAMALIEL, A
DOCTOR OF THE LAW" [Acts 5:28-34]

#430 as [#50, #70, #40, #70, #200] = nómos (G3551): {UMBRA: #430 % #41 =
#20} 1) anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law,
a command; 1a) of any law whatsoever; 1a1) a law or rule producing a state
approved of God; i) by the observance of which is approved of God; 1a2) a
precept or injunction; 1a3) the rule of action prescribed by reason; 1b) of
the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of
the law or to its contents; 1c) *THE* *CHRISTIAN* *RELIGION*: *THE* *LAW*
*DEMANDING* *FAITH*, *THE* *MORAL* *INSTRUCTION* given by Christ, esp. the
precept concerning love; 1d) the name of the more important part (the
Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the
OT;