Palestinian protesters take cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron April 2, 2013, following the death from cancer of Palestinian prison inmate Maysara Abu Hamdeya at an Israeli hospital. Hamdeya's death threatened to raise tensions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Palestinians have held several protests in recent weeks in support of prisoners. A Prisons Service spokeswoman said Abu Hamdeya died in a hospital in southern Israel on Tuesday before an early release process, begun last week after doctors diagnosed his cancer as terminal, could be completed. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel had ignored long-standing pleas to free Abu Hamdeya, 64, sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for recruiting a bomber who planted explosives in a Jerusalem cafe. The bomb did not detonate. REUTERS/Ammar Awad ( PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/PRISONER )