Israeli occupation continues to hold the body of Palestinian prisoner who died in jail from medical negligence

RAMALLAH – The Israeli occupation authorities is continuing to hold the body of a Palestinian prisoner who died in jail last week as a result of medical negligence, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Commission said on Saturday, according to WAFA News Agency.

Kamal Abu Waar, 46, from Qabatiya in the north of the West Bank, died on Tuesday of cancer in an Israeli prison. Palestinian rights organization accused the Israeli occupation authorities of neglecting the health of the prisoners and not providing them with proper medical treatment.

The prisoners’ commission spokesman Hasan Abed Rabbo told WAFA that the occupation authorities refused a request by its legal team to turn over Abu Waar’s body to his family for a proper burial and they, therefore, are still holding it.

He said Abu Waar is the eighth Palestinian prisoner who died while in jail .His body along with other martyrs bodies are still being held by the Israeli occupation.

 He called on the Red Cross and other international humanitarian organizations to intervene and pressure Israel to release the bodies of dead Palestinian prisoners to be buried by their families.

Israel holds the bodies of Palestinians in order to use them as a bargaining chip in future exchange talks with Palestinian organizations.

Source: WAFA News Agency