A leader of the local Hamas organization in the occupied West Bank has died in custody in Israel due to rapidly deteriorating health. This is what an official of the Palestinian Authority declared today.
Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara, 63, died after being transferred to a hospital from southern Israel's Ramon prison, the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs said.
"Before his arrest, he was suffering from serious health problems and required intensive medical care. However, from the moment of his arrest, Sheikh Abu Ara suffered unprecedented attacks, like all prisoners since the beginning of the war of extermination", complained the commission.
Abu Ara, who was arrested in October, was tortured and deprived of medical treatment, according to the same source. Israeli authorities have not responded to the complaint. At least 18 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Palestinian Prisoners' Union said last month.