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Hamas has called for revenge for the death of one of its leaders imprisoned in the West Bank

The Islamist group Hamas mourned this Friday the death of the prisoner Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara, one of its leaders in the occupied West Bank, who died last night at the age of 63 after his health condition deteriorated in prison, and has called for revenge. Its fighters committed this murder “due to the medical negligence of the occupiers.”

“We call on all fighters who were recruited by the martyr Sheikh to avenge the blood of the martyr and our just people by firing bullets and explosive devices at the occupying troops and settlers,” he explains in a statement.

The death of leader Abu Ara, who spent almost 12 years behind bars, was confirmed by the Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission after he was transferred from Ramon prison to Soroka Hospital due to a “serious deterioration in his condition.” health”. For the Islamist group, the death of Abu Ara, a native of the city of Aqaba in Tubas, northeast of the occupied West Bank, represents “a new cowardly murder added to the criminal history of the occupation.” “This atrocious crime is part of the ongoing war of genocide and the systematic killing campaigns carried out by political decision and at the public instigation of ministers of the Nazi government who demand the slaughter of prisoners,” they criticize in their statement.

The Hamas leader, who had been arrested several times since 1990, was married and the father of seven children, one of whom is also in prison. He was arrested on October 23, despite suffering from serious and chronic health problems that required medical supervision, according to the Palestinian Prisoner and Former Prisoner Affairs Commission. “Like all prisoners, Abu Ara suffered crimes and measures on a scale unprecedented since the beginning of the genocide, in particular torture, starvation and medical crimes,” it said in a statement.

Gaza’s Ministry of Prisoners and Released Prisoners has also condemned his death and claimed that, since the start of the war in Gaza, more than 55 prisoners have “died in Israeli prisons as a result of the occupation.”

More than 9,300 Palestinians have been arrested in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 3,600 of them held in what is known as “administrative detention” without charge or trial, according to data from human rights group Adalah. For its part, Israel says it has detained 4,200 suspects in the West Bank since the war began, about 2,000 of them allegedly linked to Hamas. (Efe)