JENIN, (PIC)
Palestinian prisoner Khaled ash-Shawish, from Jenin, was martyred on Wednesday after Israeli jailers transferred him from Nafha jail to Assaf Harofeh Hospital. The cause of his death is still unknown.
The Prisoner Media Office said that prisoner Shawish, 53, died after he was transferred yesterday in serious condition to Assaf Harofeh Hospital.
Shawish is the third prisoner to have been pronounced dead in Israeli jails since the beginning of the current year and the eighth since the Israeli occupation army started its war on Gaza last October.
In recent months, the Israeli prison service launched a repressive campaign against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails at the behest of far-right security minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Many Palestinians were reportedly assaulted or executed during their detention by Israeli forces in Gaza and the West Bank.
These deaths in Israeli jails come at a time when detainees and prisoners have testified to their lawyers about their exposure to violence at the hands of jailers and deliberate medical neglect in prisons.
In this regard, the Hamas Movement mourned martyr Khaled Shawish and held the Israeli occupation regime fully responsible for his death, stressing that the Palestinian resistance would force the occupation to release the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails soon.
Hamas called on the Palestinian masses and the families of the prisoners in Israeli jails to rise up in the face of the occupation regime, its forces and settlers in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine.
The Movement also urged the world’s free people to move to put an end to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian prisoners and save them from the medical neglect policy pursued against them in Israeli jails.
