Palestinian Resistance Leader Dies in Israeli Prison

Sheikh Mustafa Abu Arra, Hamas Leader, July 2024 Photo: @BenzBe68064

July 26, 2024 Hour: 8:04 pm

Palestinian organizations issued a statement stating that the victim was a leader of the Hamas movement and had been detained on at least 12 occasions since 1990.

The Committee on Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed the death of Sheikh Mustafa Abu Arra, 63-year-old, after being transferred from Rimon Israeli prison to the Soroka hospital because of his deteriorating health.

Palestinian organizations stated in a statement that the victim, who had come from the town of Aqaba in Tubas, West Bank, he was a leader of the Hamas movement and has been deprived of liberty on at least 12 occasions since 1990.

Abu Arra was among the prisoners of Marj al-Zuhur, in southern Lebanon in 1992. For the last time, he was arrested on 30 October 2023, when he already had health problems and needed medical care all the time.

Since his deprivation of liberty he has faced torture, starvation and neglect in medical care, which are the main causes of death inside Israeli prisons.

Since October 7, 19 Palestinian detainees have been martyred in Israeli occupation’s prisons and camps, most probably from torture, insufficient amount of food, and disease, revealed the Palestinian Prisoners Club.

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Regardless of his illness, he was forced to slow death without health care, as is the continuing war of extermination and systematic killings carried out by Israel.

The Commission and the Prisoners’ Club held the Israeli prison administration responsible for the death of Abu Arra and for the fate of all prisoners and detainees in its prisons, That adds up to more than 9,700, not including the detainees from Gaza.