The Israeli Prison Authority claimed it opened an investigation into the death of a Palestinian political prisoner who was assaulted and tortured by many Israeli soldiers and was left without medical treatment.
The detainee, Tha’er Sameeh Abu’ Assab, 38, from Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, died on Sunday, November 19, after being tortured and attacked by many Israeli soldiers and interrogators.
A Palestinian political prisoner held by Israeli at the Negev Detention Camp in the Negev Desert has died after being tortured and beaten to death by many Israeli soldiers in the facility.
The Detainees’ Committee slated that Tha’er abducted on May 27, 2005, before he was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.
It added that a detainee who was released from the detention facility said Abu Assab was repeatedly beaten and tortured by the soldiers and was left without any medical attention until he succumbed to the wounds inflicted by the soldiers.
Israeli claimed that it initiated a probe with 19 soldiers involved in his death after constantly attacking and beating him.
However, the fanatic right-wing “Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he will not allow sending the soldiers to court, alleged that there will be an investigation into the matter, and yet, he said that “the jailers have to deal with human scum and murderers.”
It is worth mentioning that Israeli soldiers have abducted thousands of Palestinians since October 7 from various parts of the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, and their fate remains unclear due to Israel’s policies and the lack of accountability.
Last Month, Abdul-Rahman Ahmad Mohammad Mer’ey, 33, died in the Israeli Megiddo prison after what the groups called a “premeditated assassination”.
The occupation prison authorities only revealed his identity to his lawyer on Tuesday and claimed that an autopsy would be performed on the body.
Mer’ey, a married father of four, was a citizen of Qarawat Bani Hassan, northwest of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank. It was added that his brother, Muhammad, was killed by the Israeli forces in 2005.
Five Palestinian detainees, including Mer’ey, have died in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, and 242 have died since the Israeli state occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.
On October 23, the Palestinian administrative detainee Omar Hamza Hassan Daraghma, 58, from Tubas, died in the “Megiddo” prison in Israel. He was abducted just two weeks earlier by Israeli forces, on October 9, 2023.
Less than 24 hours later, on October 24, 2023, a second detainee, Arafat Yasser Hamdan, 25, from Beit Sira, west of Ramallah, died in the “Ofer” detention center near Ramallah in the central West Bank, just two days after he was abducted.
On November 6, 2023, the occupation announced the death of another Palestinian detainee, Majed Ahmed Zaqoul, 32.
Reports said that the young man, from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, had died ten days prior to the announcement of his death.
Another detainee from the Gaza Strip was the fourth to die in an Israeli prison since October 7, 2023; however, the identity of the detainee is unknown.
