A 23-year-old Palestinian prisoner has died in an Israeli jail, the prison service said Monday, adding it was looking into the circumstances of the inmate’s death.
The prison service in a statement said the man from Nablus in the occupied West Bank had died in Meggido prison, in Israel’s north.
He was arrested in June 2022 and later sentenced to jail time for “security offences”, the statement said without naming the prisoner.
“As in all such incidents, the circumstances (of his death) will be examined,” it said.
The Palestinian Authority’s detainees commission confirmed a prisoner had died but was unable to verify further information.
The prison service said the inmate was affiliated with Fatah, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s movement.
Last month Israeli police said they have questioned 19 prison guards as part of an investigation into the death of another Palestinian inmate following allegations of torture.
