Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli hospital

RAMALLAH, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — A wounded Palestinian prisoner died on Sunday in an Israeli hospital, two Palestinian organizations said.
Zaher Raddad, 19, from the town of Saida in Tulkarm, northern West Bank, died in the Israeli Meir Hospital, according to a statement by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, along with the Palestinian Prisoners Club.
Raddad was arrested on July 23, after the Israeli army shot him and “used him as a human shield during the military operation by placing him on the front of one of the Israeli military vehicles in the city,” the statement said.
With Radad’s death, the number of prisoners who died in Israeli prisons since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 23, according to the statement.
There has been no Israeli statement on the death of Raddad.
Since October 2023, Israel has been waging a large-scale war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, after the movement carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip, which resulted in the killing of about 1,200 people. ■