Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral procession on Thursday (April 4) for a prisoner whose death of cancer in Israeli jail two days ago rapidly raised tensions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.<br/> <br />Maysara Abu Hamdeya was serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail.<br/> <br />Palestinians accuse Israel of withholding care from the man and failing to release him after diagnosing that his illness was terminal. Israel says it followed normal procedures.<br/> <br />Fatah militants opened their weapons and fired in the air as they expressed anger over the death of Abu Hamdeya at the funeral procession.<br/> <br />Abu Hamdeya, who was serving a life term for a planned attack on a Jerusalem cafe in 2002, was buried in Hebron today.
