Elderly Palestinian detainee from Gaza dies in Israeli custody

RAMALLAH /PNN / 

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced that an elderly Palestinian detainee has died while in Israeli custody.

They reported that the death of 70-year-old detainee Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein Abu Habel, from Gaza, adds to the growing number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the intensified and systematic abuses perpetrated by the Israeli prison system since the onset of the…