A wounded Palestinian detainee succumbed to his wounds, just two days after Israeli soldiers shot and abducted him from his home in the Al-Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In a statement, the Commission for Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced the death of the injured detainee, Walid Ahmad Mohammad Khalifa, 30, while he was in Israeli custody.
On Saturday, the prisoner associations confirmed Khalifa’s death, two days after Israeli forces stormed his home in the Al-Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus, before shooting him with live ammunition, withholding medical treatment, and proceeding to abduct him.
Media sources said that the condition of the injured young man was not disclosed at the time of his abduction, and he was transferred to an unknown location, before his family was notified of his death by the Palestinian liaison.
According to family members, after shooting Khalifa, soldiers took him out of the house on a stretcher, while he screamed for his family.
It is important to mention that Khalifa is a married father of four children, including a newborn, and the brother of the slain, Amir Khalifa, who was assassinated by Israeli forces in August of 2023.
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On August 10, 2023, Israeli forces shot the young man, Amir Ahmad Khalifa, 27, in the head and back with live ammunition during a military incursion into the village of Zawata, west of Nablus.
Al-Jazeera said that Amir was a resistance fighter with the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” and was executed under the pretext that he was “wanted by Israeli forces for two years and had refused to surrender”.
In addition, Walid Khalifa is the brother of the Administrative Detainee, Khaled Khalifa, whom occupation forces abducted several months ago.
With the death of Khalifa, the number of prisoners and detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023, has risen to 25, while the 262 prisoners and detainees have died in Israeli prisons, since 1967.
The data only includes those whose identities have been announced, however the occupation continues to evade disclosing the identities of dozens of Gaza detainees who have died in its prisons.
