The announcement of his death yesterday in an Israeli hospital where he was transferred yesterday, after the deterioration of his health condition in captivity, the minister of foreign affairs and expatriates in Palestine, Riyad al-Maliki, held Israel responsible for the death of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, pointing to the filing of his death to the International Criminal Court.

Al-Maliki said in a statement on Tuesday that there is a continuous movement to release the body of Abu Hamid, so that his family can provide him with wealth worthy of his sacrifices, according to the Palestinian news agency "Wafa".

Al-Maliki called on"the international community, the US administration, the United Nations and its competent bodies to exert real pressure on the Israeli government to immediately release the body of the martyr".

He pointed out that"the ministry will continue its movement at all levels to mobilize the widest international pressure to secure the release of the body of the martyr, and complete the work to free the bodies of the rest of the martyrs detained by the occupation".

He pointed out that"the ministry will work to raise the file of the martyr prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid to the International Criminal Court".

According to the statement, the minister held "the occupation authorities and their various arms fully and directly responsible for the crime of medical negligence that led to his martyrdom, and their rejection of all international and regional demands, appeals and positions that called for his immediate release so that he could receive the necessary treatments outside prisons, in an official Israeli insistence on continuing to commit the crime that led to his martyrdom.

"The international community also bears responsibility for its inaction and failure to capture the important humanitarian moment in which President Mahmoud Abbas demanded his immediate release before the UN General Assembly,"he stressed.

"Abu Hamid is not only a victim of the occupation, its injustice and oppression, but also a victim of the policy of double standards and double international standards,"he stressed.