APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 09 September 2019.
Palestinians take part in a protest against the death of the prisoner Bassam Al-Sayeh in the in the Israeli jails, outside the Red Cross headquarter in Gaza city
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Al-Sayeh, 47, was detained in 2015 and was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2011 and blood cancer in 2013.
The Palestinian political prisoner Bassam al-Sayeh, 47, died on Sunday in the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital.
The Israel Prison Service had rejected many Palestinian calls for the release of al-Sayeh, who was suffering from bone and blood cancer, despite his deteriorated health condition.
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