Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, denied early release after cancer diagnosis, dies in Israeli hospital

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    Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, denied early release after cancer diagnosis, dies in Israeli hospital
    7 April 2024 19:30 BST | Middle East Eye
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    Long-term Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa has died in Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

    Daqqa, who had been detained since 1986, had been diagnosed with a rare type of bone marrow cancer last year. Israeli authorities denied his early release despite his terminal diagnosis.

    Daqqa was originally due to be released from prison last year after completing his life sentence.

    However, in 2018, an Israeli court sentenced him to additional years on charges of smuggling cellphones inside the prison. His release date was set to be in 2025.

    Like other Palestinian prisoners, Daqqa, who had also been diagnosed with leukaemia in 2015, had suffered from medical negligence during his time, which had worsened his health.

    According to Sana Salama, Daqqa’s wife, he had previously undergone a lung resection operation due to severe pneumonia and was hospitalised for over a month at the Barzilai Hospital in Israel.

    “He also suffers from severe kidney failure and low blood pressure. After the surgery, he was unable to speak, but he’s been unable to move or walk unassisted,” Salama told Middle East Eye last year.

    In the course of his imprisonment, Daqqa had written books and studies on various subjects, and cultivated a reputation of being a thinker.

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      Walid Daqqa.. The Prisoner.. The Witness and the Martyr.
      08-04-2024 | Addameer
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      Despite our warnings and other prisoner organizations about his health condition...

      The prisoner Walid Daqqa passes away as a martyr in Israeli occupation hospitals, bearing witness to the ongoing crime of colonialism against Palestinian prisoners in the last colonial prisons in the world. Daqqa departs this world after serving a continuous sentence of over 38 years, during which guards changed multiple times and the cell doors rusted shut. In his departure, Daqqa leaves behind a clear image of the inhumane treatment practiced by the occupation, particularly towards Palestinian prisoners.

      Daqqa departs without ceasing to spread the values of humanity and images of struggle even from within a cell that became more familiar to him than his own family did. His pen never ran dry as he wrote and taught the noblest meanings of humanity in places where humanity itself was fought and confined within the boxes of time—the prisons. Daqqa departs, leaving the world with the most beautiful and vivid images of struggle and humanity, embodied in his daughter Milad, who against all odds came into the world against the guard’s will, despite the walls surrounding them from all sides.

      Today, Daqqa departs, leaving behind a message he wrote in his thirty-sixth year inside the occupation’s prisons, saying: “I will continue to love you all, for love is my humble and sole victory over my jailer.”

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