Adnan Al-Bursh: Heroic Palestinian surgeon dies in Israeli prison after months in detention [Video]

A senior Palestinian doctor has died inside an Israeli prison after being held in detention for more than four months, a Palestinian prisoners’ association said.

Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of orthopedics at Al Shifa Hospital – Gaza‘s largest medical facility.

He was arrested along with 10 other medical workers by Israeli forces while treating patients at Al-Awada Hospital in north Gaza, the part of the Strip which Israel‘s incessant missile strikes have completely flattened.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society called his death an “assassination”, saying it was part of “a systematic targeting process against physicians and the health care system in Gaza”.

Al-Bursh’s body has not yet been released by Israeli authorities.

An Israeli military spokesperson said that the prison service had declared Al-Bursh dead on 19 April after being detained …