Israel accused of negligence as former Palestinian prisoner dies
Al Jazeera
Palestinian officials accuse Israel of ‘medical negligence’ after Hussein Masalmah dies of cancer months after release.
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Former Palestinian prisoner Hussein Masalmah has died, seven months after being released from Israeli custody due to illness related to leukaemia, with Palestinian officials accusing the Israeli authorities of “medical negligence” over his case.
Masalmah, 39, died on Thursday in a hospital in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestinian prisoner groups, Masalmah had complained of severe abdominal pains while being held in Israel’s southern Naqab prison for two months before prison authorities agreed to transfer him to Soroka Hospital in Beer al-Sabaa, where he was diagnosed with an advanced stage of the blood and bone marrow cancer.
