RAMALLAH: Palestinian detainee Khaled Al-Shawish, 53, has died in the Israeli prison of Nafha, the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) today announced, bringing the total number of prisoners and detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since October 7 to nine.
Al-Shawish, who is originally from Al-Fara’a camp, north of Tubas, has been detained since May 28, 2007, and was sentenced to 11 life sentences.
He was one of the chronically ill patients held in Israeli jails. He was arrested in 1993 after being kidnapped by an undercover special force. He spent nearly 4 years in the occupation prisons, without a charge being proven against him.
PPS said that Al-Shawish was suffering from constant pain and a hand fracture.
Al-Shawish was released in 1996. He was seriously injured after being shot by occupation live bullets in 2001, which led to his paralysis. Six years after his injury, the occupation forces arrested him and sentenced him to 11 life imprisonments
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PPS and the Commission said in a joint statement that 246 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli prison since the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem in 1967.
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Al-Shawish was born on January 14, 1971. He studied in the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) in Al-Fara’a camp. He is married and has four children, one of whom is Qutaiba who spent five and a half years in occupation prisons, while his brother Musa was killed by Israeli forces in 1992. His brother Nasser was sentenced to life imprisonment five times, while his brother Mohammad spent 11 years in occupation prisons.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA