The death comes on the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner, marked by dozens of rallies across the West Bank and Gaza, commemorating the lives of more than 10,000 Palestinians currently held in Israel, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have spent years of their lives incarcerated by Israeli military courts.
Former prisoner Abed An-Naser Farawneh said Hamad’s death came as a result of "intentional medical negligence," and noted that Hammad was the 198th Palestinian to die in Israeli custody since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.
According to a report from the Palestinian Authority, Hammad was moved into solitary confinement in Israel's Eshel Prison, despite medical reports indicating the young man was not well.... Full story
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