Lubada dies one week after release from Israeli jail
31/05/2012
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Hamas leader in Nablus Zuhair Lubada, 50, was pronounced dead at dawn Thursday after one week of his
release from Israeli jails for health reasons, sources concerned with prisoners’ affairs said.
Lubada, who was suffering from Cirrhosis of the liver and kidney disease, was released from Israeli prisons after
worsening health condition. He was taken from jail to intensive care in a hospital in Nablus.
Lubada was held in Israeli occupation jails more than once and served several years in detention and was one of the
deportees to Marj Al-Zuhur in South Lebanon in 1992.
The Wa’ed society for prisoners and ex-prisoners held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) responsible for the
“killing and liquidating” of Lubada.
The society said in an urgent statement on Thursday that increasing numbers of freed Palestinian captives die soon after
their release, recalling the cases of Zakaria Issa and Walid Shaat.
Wa’ed asked the Arab League to launch an investigation to probe the death of Lubada and similar cases.
The society called on the family of the deceased to file a lawsuit against the Israeli prison service and Israeli
government to hold them accountable for this painful incident.
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