Four Palestinians at Israeli prison were confirmed on Thursday to have contracted coronavirus from an Israeli investigator, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). In a press release, the non-governmental organization said the Israel Prison Service informed that the prisoners caught the virus in Megiddo Prison, which was transmitted to detainees by ...
Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Bassam al-Sayyeh died on Sunday due to medical negligence, said the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission. Al-Sayyeh, 47 and from the northern West Bank district of Nablus, was detained on August 10, 2015, he was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2011 and blood cancer in 2013. The ...