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The body of the activist, who was suffering from cancer, is still being held by the Israeli authorities. Fifteen Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023.
Israeli police stormed on Monday evening the funeral tent of martyr prisoner Walid Daqqa in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in 1948 Occupied Palestine, removed the tent, and arrested five people.
"Walid Daqqah’s writings behind bars are a testament to a spirit never broken by decades of incarceration and oppression," the NGO said.
Amnesty International's tweet Monday that eulogized the life of Walid Daqqa and condemned his time in Israeli prison missed some important details.
One might expect a global human rights organisation to wholeheartedly condemn a man involved in the brutal torture of a teenage soldier. Not the Amnesty International of 2024, it seems. On Monday night, the charity instead lamented the death of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, tweeting: The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian