Gaza City, December 19 (RHC)-- A cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner has died of torture in an Israeli prison just one month after his arrest in the northern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Mohammad Anwar Labed died after suffering torture in Israeli detention, Quds News Network, a Palestinian youth news outlet, reported on Thursday, citing the Red Cross.

The cancer-stricken Palestinian was from the Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza, the report added, without giving further details about his arrest or death.

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in October last year, at least 49 Palestinian prisoners have lost their lives in Israeli occupation detention centers, the report noted.

According to Quds News Network, dozens of other Gaza detainees also died in prisons and torture camps, but Israeli authorities have not revealed their identities or the details surrounding their deaths.

Almost 70 Palestinians, many of them unidentified, have been tortured to death by the Israeli regime in its prisons since October 2023 amid the genocidal war on Gaza.
Israel keeps Palestinian inmates, particularly those abducted by the occupying regime from Gaza, under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedom granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international law. 

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their illegal detention.