Pictures of Palestinian prisoner Sami Abu Diak, who died of cancer in an Israeli prison, seen at a protest tent in Gaza City, Nov. 26, 2019. (Xinhua/Rizek Abdeljawad)
With Abu Diak's death, the number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli jails since 1967 rose to 222.
RAMALLAH, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian sources on Tuesday confirmed that Palestinian prisoner Sami Abu Diak died in an Israeli jail.
The Detainees Affairs Commission of the Palestine Liberation Organization said that Abu Diak, 36, died despite "long months of warning of his medical condition," accusing Israel of "medical negligence and willful killing."
Abu Diak had been in prison since September 2002 and was sentenced to 30 years by an Israeli military court.
He is the third Palestinian inmate that has died in Israeli custody since July.
According to the quasi-governmental Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC), 222 Palestinians have died in Israeli jails since 1967.
The PPC said Abu Diak was subject to torture and medical malpractice after a surgery in 2015. He was later found to have cancer.
Official data show around 5,500 Palestinian prisoners are jailed in Israel, out of whom 700 are ill or injured, including 30 suffering from cancers.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli Prisons Authority said in a press statement that Abu Diak died in Nitzan prison as a result of his illness. ■
