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Autopsy Shows 17-Year-Old Palestinian Starved to Death in Israeli Prison

HeadlineApr 09, 2025

An autopsy has revealed that a Palestinian child who died in an Israeli prison last month likely starved to death. Seventeen-year-old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad collapsed on March 22 in Israel’s notorious Megiddo Prison, where he’d been held without trial for six months for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. An Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy said Ahmad had suffered severe muscle and fat loss; he also had scabies and showed signs of torture.

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