The General Authority of Civil Affairs notified the Commission of Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced the latest death of a prisoner in Israeli custody on Sunday. 

This brings the death toll of identified Palestinian detainees to 79 since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. 

The detainee was identified as 49 year-old Mahmoud Abdullah, from the Jenin refugee camp.

According to the joint statement by the prisoner rights monitors, Abdullah’s health deteriorated severely in prison since his arrest in early February, with the Israeli prison authorities refusing to release him in spite of medical tests confirming his advanced cancer.