The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced on Monday evening that a Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli detention.
According to the Wafa news organisation, Qaddoura Fares, head of the ministry, told the organisation over a phone call that a detainee had died in Megiddo prison, "without knowing any details yet about the identity of the martyr".
Megiddo prison is located outside the West Bank.
Fares said that the news of the detainee’s death comes within the framework of the Israeli occupation’s crimes against detainees in its prisons, which raised the number of detainees who died since 7 October to seven.
"Since the start of the comprehensive aggression against our people on 7 October of last year, detainees in the occupation prisons have been subjected to physical and verbal torture and deprivation of the necessities of life," Wafa reported.
MEE
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