The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) on Monday evening released the body of the slain Palestinian prisoner Hussein Hussein Attallah 57 at Qalqilia entrance.
Atallah from the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus died on Saturday while inside Israel’s Ramla prison after a severe deterioration in his health.
Attallah who was sentenced to 35 years in prison and had served 21 of them died after a battle with cancer.
Prior to his death Atallah told the lawyer that doctors at the hospital informed him that his condition was very critical and that he ought to be released immediately. Nevertheless he was kept in hospital while tied to bed all the time and being deprived of his right to family visitation.
By the martyrdom of detainee Atallah the number of Palestinian martyrs of prisoners have mounted to 213 since 1967. Some 72 captives died due to torture 60 others as a result to medical ignorance 74 because of deliberate killing immediately after arrest and 7 more were shot by gunfire inside Israeli jails.
