Walid Daqqah died in Israeli prison as a revolutionary and literary icon. But when he and his wife Sana’ gave life to their daughter through his smuggled sperm, Walid was given a second life.
Walid Daqqah saw the “little prison” where he spent most of his life mirrored in the “big prison” that housed the rest of his people. His challenge to us and to himself was to free ourselves from the prison inside of us.
Imprisoned Palestinian novelist and activist Walid Daqqa, who was suffering from cancer, has died in Israel’s Shamir Medical Center, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs on Sunday.
Walid Daqqa, 62-year-old Palestinian activist and novelist who spent 38 years in Israeli jails and battled cancer, dies of medical negligence and custodial torture.