Hyderabad, May 3 -- Adnan Al-Bursh, a renowned Palestinian surgeon from Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital has been killed by torture during his detention in Israeli prison.

In a joint statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said 50-year-old Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics, died in the Israel-controlled Ofer prison in the occupied West Bankon April 19, in what has been termed "deliberate assassination."

His body remains withheld by the Israeli authorities.

In December 2023, Al-Bursh was arrested with group of other doctors at the al-Awda Hospital near the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, while he was treating Palestinians injured in Israel's indiscriminate assault on the besieged enclave...