Palestinian ex-prisoner Ziad Sh’eibat from Bethlehem was pronounced dead on Thursday evening as a result of medical neglect in Israeli detention.

The casualty succumbed to a cancer he caught shortly after he had been released from Israeli jails. Drugs prescribed by Israeli medics have reportedly caused the lethal tumor.

Sh’eibat underwent a surgery at a hospital in Occupied Jerusalem. However afterwards he had been denied urgent medical referrals to receive life-saving therapy.

Sh’eibat is a prominent Islamic Jihad leader in the southern occupied West Bank province of Bethlehem. He is also the imam of Beit Sahour’s Grand Mosque.

The casualty had been locked up for several years in the Israeli occupation jails where his health status had seen a remarkable turn for the worse before he breathed his last on Thursday.

Palestinian ex-prisoner Mazen al-Maghrebi was pronounced dead on Tuesday after he succumbed to a disease he caught in an Israeli jail.

Head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Faris Qaddura said 45-year-old Mazen al-Maghrebi had been locked up for five years in Israeli jails where he caught a kidney disease. He was released a few months ago.

Al-Maghrebi underwent a sudden health setback on Monday after he joined a sit-in tent in Ramallah to support the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails. He was rushed to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah where he was pronounced dead at daybreak.

At least 10 Palestinian prisoners and ex-prisoners died since 2013 Qaddura added.

Some 6500 Palestinian detainees held in Israeli lock-ups have been subjected to preplanned medical neglect and mistreatment.

Since April 17 2017 1700 Palestinian prisoners joined a mass hunger strike in Israeli lock-ups to protest violations and speak up for their infringed rights.

RAMALLAH (PIC)– Former Palestinian prisoner Naim Shawamreh who developed muscular dystrophy while serving his sentence in Israeli jails has succumbed to his illness three years after he was released.

The Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Committee said Shawamreh’s death was the result of Israeli medical negligence in prison.

The committee’s director Issa Qaraqe urged the international community to seriously work on halting such preplanned Israeli crimes against Palestinian detainees.

“Israel’s murder policies have reached intolerable levels in prisons where illnesses have swiftly spread among the detainees” he said. “We’ve frequently encountered detainees who spend the last days of their lives in hospitals without returning to their homes.”

Qaraqe called for the need to file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court at the soonest time possible so as to impeach Israeli criminals for their crimes against the Palestinian people.

The Center for the Defense of Freedoms and Civil Rights (Hurriyat) held the Israeli occupation government prison service and medics accountable for the death of Shawamreh.

A statement by Hurriyat said Shawamreh’s death sounds the alarm over the death risks run by sick detainees in Israeli lock-ups.

Naim Shawamreh 46 was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995. He was released in 2013 after serving nearly 19 years in prison following negotiations.

Meanwhile European MPs joined a rally staged by dozens of Palestinian protesters and activists in Ramallah city holding the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for Shawamreh’s death.

Former Greek MP Zoe Konstantopoulou said she will work along with her Irish and Icelandic fellows to transmit the true tragedy endured by the Palestinians to their countries.

She added that contacts have been underway to mobilize solidarity with the Palestinian detainees.

“Naim died as a result of the deliberate medical negligence in Israeli prisons” a rally-goer said. “He would not have got to this point if he had been taken care of.

The protesters further expressed their support for prisoner Bilal Kayed on hunger strike for the 68th consecutive day in protest at being held administratively without trial in Israeli jails.