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Palestinian dies after months in Israeli prison, PA says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Palestinian prisoner has died in administrative detention at Israel’s Ofer prison in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s prisoners’ affairs office says.
He is named as Sakher Zaoul, 26 of Hussan, near Bethlehem. He was under administrative detention — meaning he was being held without charge — since June 11, the PA agency says.
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The agency cites Zaoul’s family as saying he had no chronic illnesses and that his brother Khalil is also in Israeli prison.
Zaoul is the 86th Palestinian prisoner that the PA has identified as having died in Israeli jail since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, the PA agency says. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who oversees prisons, has boasted of reducing living conditions for inmates to their bare minimum.
The statement does not specify what Zaoul died of, but accuses Ben Gvir of overseeing a policy of abuse that is “slowly executing” Palestinian prisoners. It does not say when Zaoul died, but notes that its comes four days after the death in Israeli custody of Palestinian prisoner Abdelrahman al-Sabateen.
A spokesman for the Israel Prison Service does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Times of Israel Community.