Palestinian prisoner Sa’di al-Gharabli 75 died on Monday afternoon at Israel’s Eshel Prison due to deliberate medical neglect.
Al-Gharabli a resident of Shijaiya neighborhood in Gaza who was serving a life sentence spent 26 years in Israeli jails.
Al-Gharabli was arrested in 1994 and spent about 15 years of his detention in solitary confinement.
According to al-Gharabli’s family who met him for the last time in 2001 before the Israel Prison Service decided to deprive him of family visits al-Gharabli was deliberately denied treatment for prostate cancer and other chronic diseases.
Although his health condition gravely deteriorated in recent weeks the Israel Prison Service refused to move him to the Ramle Prison Clinic and left him to suffer until he took his last breath.
Al-Gharabli’s death brought the number of Palestinians who have died while in Israeli custody since 1967 to 223. This is added to hundreds of prisoners who died after their release from Israeli jails due to illnesses and injuries they sustained during their detention.
