After 38 years in Israeli occupation prisons, Palestinian prisoner Waleed Abu Daqqa was assassinated due to years of medical neglect while in Israeli jails.
Dagga was scheduled to be released in February last year after completing his jail term, but Israeli authorities extended his sentence for two more years, forbidding him from seeing his only daughter, Milad, whom he and his wife conceived after managing to smuggle his sperm out of prison. He was denied proper treatment for his rare cancer condition, which Israeli occupation authorities neglected.
Amnesty International and many Palestinian and international human rights organizations have demanded the immediate release of Walid, who suffers from chronic lung disease, bone marrow cancer. Citing ill-equipped Israeli prisons clinics to deal with his conditions.
Following his cancer diagnosis last year, the Israeli Prison Service denied Walid Daqqa access to a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant by refusing to transfer him to a civilian hospital
