BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, a Palestinian jailed in Israel, died in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday, after protests to secure his release failed.
Hamdiyeh was transferred from prison to Soroka hospital in late March suffering from throat cancer which had spread to his spinal cord.
Prisoners in Eshel and Nafha prisons had launched hunger strikes to demand Abu Hamdiyeh's release.
Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian Authority prisoners minister, said Abu Hamdiyeh's cancer spread because he did not receive treatment earlier.
"It is a brutal crime against Maysara especially that the prison administration knew that he was suffering from cancer and they didn't release him and medically neglected him," Qaraqe told Ma'an.
Qaraqe said Israeli prison authorities had medically neglected Abu Hamdiyeh over several years. The minister held the Israeli government responsible for Abu Hamdiyeh's death and called for an international committee to investigate Israel's failure to provide him treatment earlier.
Abu Hamdiyeh, a Fatah leader from Hebron, was detained in 2002 and sentenced to life. more
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