Palestinians push for free up of critically in poor health detainee | News24

A spokesman for the Israel Prison Service informed AFP that Daqqa is recently on the Shamir Medical Center in central Israel.

• A Palestinian serving time for the abduction and homicide of an Israeli soldier is critically in poor health with most cancers.
• The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club is asking for his free up.
• It is because of be launched in March 2025.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club pressed on Thursday for the discharge of a critically in poor health detainee, held for many years through Israel.

Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian serving time for the kidnap and homicide of an Israeli soldier, has most cancers, the advocacy team stated.

“He is now on artificial ventilation and his lungs and kidneys are in great distress,” it stated in a commentary.

A spokesman for the Israel Prison Service informed AFP that Daqqa is recently on the Shamir Medical Center in central Israel.

Daqqa identifies as Palestinian despite the fact that he holds citizenship from Israel, which might imagine him Arab-Israeli.

Palestinians accrued within the West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday for a rally in cohesion with Daqqa and different Palestinians held through Israel.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club stated it delivered a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Hebron and close by Bethlehem, calling for the group to interfere in Daqqa’s case.

An ICRC spokesperson informed AFP it had gained the letter and the group had in the past visited Daqqa.

Daqqa, 61, used to be identified in December with a unprecedented type of blood most cancers – myelofibrosis – the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club stated.

The group stated he used to be additionally identified with leukemia in 2015 and is recently because of be freed in March 2025.

Judicial government in Israel didn’t right away reply to an AFP request referring to Daqqa’s appeals for early free up on scientific grounds.