Clashes erupted on Tuesday between Palestinian protesters and Israeli occupation forces, few hours after the martyrdom of Palestinian prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh in an Israeli jail.
Clashes erupted on Tuesday between Palestinian protesters and Israeli occupation forces, few hours after the martyrdom of Palestinian prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh in an Israeli jail.
The Minister of Prisoners Affairs in Ramallah, Iss
a Qaraqe, announced the martyrdom of Abu Hamdiyeh, 64, in the Israeli jail of Ishel.
Abu Hamdiyeh, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, died at Soroka hospital in the city of Beersheva where he had been taken at the weekend, the head of the Prisoners Club, Qadura Fares said.
He who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in jail, began complaining of throat problems about nine months ago and was subsequently diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
“Prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdyieh died today. He had cancer,” Fares added, as he accused the Zionist entity of being responsible for his death due to its "refusal to release him for treatment," despite repeated appeals.
According to Abu Hamdiyeh’s lawyers, the Palestinian martyr fainted repeatedly in the jail and’ he couldn’t speak because of the spread of the cancer.
For his part, the Palestinian Authority Chief, Mahmoud Abbas, blamed the Israeli government for the martyrdom of Abu Hamdiyeh.
"The Palestinian presidency holds the government of (Prime Minister)Banjamin Netanyahu responsible for the martyrdom of prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh today in the prisons of the Israeli occupation," Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said in a statement.
Few hours later, clashes erupted across the Palestinian territories between occupation soldiers and protesters.
In the city of Hebron, several protesters were suffocated during the clashes with the occupation soldiers. Meanwhile protesters took to streets in the cities of Ramallah and Beit Lahm.
