Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian writer, activist, intellectual, and political prisoner from the city of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer in 2022 and has since then been in dire need of urgent medical attention.

While Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli authorities have always experienced a wholesale violation of their human rights, Israel’s new extreme-right-wing government has taken numerous steps to implement a particularly hostile, radical agenda to harm Palestinians in prisons, their families, and Palestinian society as a whole.

On 14 February 2023, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), the

The undersigned 88 Palestinian, regional and international civil society organisations welcome the historic