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The security prisoner Shawish Khaled Gamal, a senior Fatah official who was convicted of terrorist offenses, died yesterday in Nafha prison - this is what the prison service announced today (Wednesday).
He is the seventh security prisoner to die in prison since the outbreak of the Iron Swords War.
Shawish Khaled Gamal, a resident of Jenin, was 53 years old, and considered one of Marwan Barghouti's associates.
He was arrested in 2007 and later convicted of involvement in a long series of murderous attacks against Israelis.
He was sentenced to ten life sentences.
According to the Shevast statement, he was evacuated from the prison to Assaf Harofeh hospital in Zerifin under circumstances that "cover under the modesty of medical information".
Since October, seven security prisoners, including judges and detainees, have died between the cells of the prison. Shavish is the most senior and the oldest of them all.
One of them was The 38-year-old security prisoner Thaar Abu Assab, who died in Katzioot prison in November. After his death, an investigation was opened, after it is suspected that Abu Assab, who was serving a prison sentence of more than 20 years in prison, was beaten to death in his cell and died of his wounds within hours. the investigation, 19 guards were detained for questioning with a warning on suspicion of violently attacking the prisoner, and several of them were suspended from their jobs.
Nafha Prison/Official website, Prison Service
Tha'er Abu Assab was arrested and sentenced to long detention after he was arrested in 2005 at a checkpoint near Nablus with an explosive belt on his body, which he planned to detonate on soldiers who were securing the checkpoint.
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