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April 9, 2025

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