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Israeli prison service isolates prisoner Daqqa

Wednesday 1-February-2017

The Israeli prison service (IPS) placed the Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa in solitary confinement which is this third during in one month Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Daqqa’s family and friends are worried about his health condition especially that he has a blood disease which requires constant medical attention.

Daqqa was first isolated when he received a letter from MK Basel Ghattas but a prisoner accompanied him to monitor his condition. However now he is isolated alone away from other cells in Ramon prison.

“The prisoner was charged with smuggling cellphones to other prisoners and he is under medical observation like the rest of the prisoners” according to the IPS.

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