RAMALLAH, Monday, April 6, 2024 (WAFA) –Israeli police today raided the funeral tent of the slain Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa and his family’s home in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya within the 1948 territories.
An Israeli army raided the funeral tent, which was held in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya, detained two young men along with five members of Daqqas` relatives.
|Waleed Daqqa Dies After 38 Years in Israeli Prison|
Sixty-two ill freedom fighter Waleed Daqqa, who completed 39 years behind bars for his resistance to the Israeli occupation, died yesterday in the Israeli Assaf Harofeh Hospital after years of deliberate medical negligence by the Israeli prison administration,
Last November, the Occupation Supreme Court refused to release Daqqa, despite the deterioration of his health due to cancer.
The health condition of Daqqa has deteriorated since March last year; three months before his previous release date after suffering from severe pneumonia and acute kidney failure, in addition to being diagnosed with myelofibrosis cancer on December 18, 2022.
Myelofibrosis is a rare cancer of the bone marrow, which developed from leukemia that was diagnosed about ten years ago and left without proper treatment.
In April last year, Daqqa underwent surgery in which part of his right lung was removed, then he was transferred to the Ramla Prison Clinic.
On May 22, he suffered further deterioration and was transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital due to complications of the lung removal process, which caused very severe respiratory suffocation and infection.
The death toll of Palestinians in the occupation prisons has risen to 14 since the start of the aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7 last year. Since 1967, 251 prisoners died in Israeli custody.
