Israel returns body of Palestinian child who died in custody last year

LONDON: Israeli authorities on Thursday returned the body of a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who died in custody last year, following legal efforts by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs. Walid Khaled Ahmad, from Silwad, east of Ramallah, died in Megiddo Prison in March 2025, about six months after he was detained, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that the boy had been starved and denied medical care,

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