Two protests in Bethlehem and Nablus denouncing the crime of executing the prisoner Daqqa

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Bethlehem – Nablus – Dozens of citizens participated, today, Monday, in two stands in support of the prisoners and in rejection of the policy of slow killing that the occupation is pursuing against them, in Bethlehem and Nablus, at the invitation of the National Action factions, the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, and the Freed Prisoners’ Association. And national events in the governorate.

In Bethlehem, Governor Muhammad Taha said that what happened with the captive martyr, Walid Daqqa, is a living example of the occupation’s barbaric and retaliatory policy, stressing that the world must stand up to its responsibilities to protect our people everywhere from the occupation’s brutal aggression.

In turn, the head of the Prisoner Club, Abdullah Zaghari, said that the prisoner movement today loses one of its heroic pillars, Walid Daqqa, the creative and thinker who spent 38 years in the occupation prisons, stressing that what happened with Walid Daqqa is the
result of the crime of deprivation and deliberate medical neglect by the prison administration, as He contracted a rare and serious disease during the last period of his detention.

He pointed out that the scale of medical and humanitarian crimes committed by the occupation against prisoners is terrifying, and the whole world must stand by the prisoners to extract their rights and gain their freedom.

For his part, the head of the National Library, Issa Qaraqe, said that the Palestinian people lost a writer, thinker, revolutionary, and fighter. He added that Daqqa left a great impact on the souls of the Palestinians with his thoughts, writings, knowledge, and knowledge. He wrote about theater and poetry. He enriched the Palestinian library and the Palestinian cultural identity, explaining that he won Best Book Award for Young People from Sharjah for his story ‘The Secret of Oil’.

For her part, Director of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority in Bethlehem, Magda Al-Azraq, said that the crime that
occurred against the prisoner Walid Daqqa is a new crime added to the record of atrocious crimes committed by the occupation against Palestinian prisoners, which increased in frequency after the seventh of last October. Emphasizing that the policy of deliberate medical negligence is not new to the occupation, as the best Palestinian youth have fallen victim to it inside its prisons.

In Nablus, official and national activities condemned the crime of executing the prisoner, the national leader, Walid Daqqa (62 years old), in the Israeli occupation prisons.

This came during a public stand on the Martyrs’ Roundabout in the center of Nablus, at the invitation of the National Committee for Prisoner Support, to denounce the crime that occurred against the prisoner Walid Daqqa, who rose to the throne as a martyr as a result of the policy of deliberate medical negligence by the occupation prison administration.

The participants affirmed their rejection of the occupation policy of punishing Palestinian prisoners, ca
lling on all human rights organizations to take action to stop the policy of deliberate medical neglect and torture against them, and to deprive them of their most basic human rights.

Source: Maan News Agency