RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian prisoner died on Tuesday in Israeli custody after battling cancer, Israel’s prisons service said, ahead of demonstrations in the West Bank planned before his death. In a statement, the prisons service said Abu Diak, 35, died in an Israeli hospital early Tuesday. Abu Diak was linked to the armed wing of the Palestinian Fatah faction and was arrested in the early 2000s, during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising. Tuesday’s protests were called before Abu Diak died. Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and quickly began settling the newly conquered territory.

Source: Egypt Independent November 26, 2019 07:52 UTC