Communist Party of Israel

The young communist Omar Sa'ad, a Druze conscientious objector, who is currently serving his seventh prison term for refusing to join the Israeli army, was hospitalized in Haifa last week with a liver infection. According to "Al Ittihad" communist daily newspaper, two military policemen are currently guarding Sa'ad’s hospital room "so that he does not escape." On Saturday, while he was still undergoing treatments, military police personnel arrived at the hospital and asked to transfer Sa'ad to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.