World Courant
RAMALLAH, Palestine
The Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, 62, died on Sunday, after 38 years in Israeli jails, attributable to most cancers, Palestinian rights teams reported.
“The chief and prisoner Walid Daqqa, affected by most cancers, was martyred at Assaf Harofeh Hospital (close to Tel Aviv),” the Fee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society stated in a joint assertion.
Deqqa’s dying was attributed to “the deliberate medical negligence coverage pursued by the occupation prisons administration towards sick prisoners.”
The assertion stated Deqqa hails from Baqa al-Gharbiyye, a city positioned in Israel on the border with the occupied West Financial institution, annd has been detained since 1986.
Earlier on Sunday, the newspaper Israel As we speak reported Daqqa’s dying within the hospital attributable to a uncommon type of most cancers.
It added that he has been imprisoned since 1986, on fees of kidnapping and killing an Israeli soldier in 1984, and he is likely one of the oldest Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Israel has detained at the very least 9,100 Palestinian prisoners, whose situations have worsened because the conflict within the Gaza Strip started on Oct. 7 final 12 months, based on Palestinian organizations involved with prisoners.
Israel has waged a lethal navy offensive on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border assault in early October by the Palestinian group, Hamas, killed lower than 1,200 folks.
Almost 33,200 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 75,900 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of requirements. Israel has additionally imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its inhabitants, notably residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of hunger.
The Israeli conflict has pushed 85% of Gaza’s inhabitants into inside displacement amid acute shortages of meals, clear water, and drugs, whereas 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been broken or destroyed, based on the UN.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), which final week requested it to do extra to forestall famine in Gaza.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala
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