A Palestinian man, Moataz Abu Zneid (35 years old) from Dura, south of Hebron, who has been held in Israeli detention without charges for over a year, was declared dead in the Israeli Soroka Hospital on Sunday after Israeli torture and medical neglect.
68 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons as a result of torture or medical negligence, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz stated Sunday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Commission said Abu Zneid was detained since 6/27/2023. He was married and had one child, and according to his family, he did not suffer from any health problems before his arrest.
The statement added that according to a preliminary statement obtained from one of the prisoners recently released from Rimon Prison, where he was being held, the health of detainee Abu Zneid suddenly and seriously deteriorated, and the prison administration deliberately delayed his transfer to the hospital, and committed a systematic medical crime against him, until he fell into a coma and was transferred to Soroka Hospital on January 6, and his martyrdom was announced tonight.
He explained that with the martyrdom of the prisoner Abu Zneid from Dura, the number of martyrs among the prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons since the beginning of the war of extermination has risen to (55) martyrs whose identities are known, and this number is the highest historically, so that this stage is the bloodiest stage in the history of the prisoner movement since 1967.
The number of martyrs of the prisoner movement whose identities are known since 1967 has risen to (292), noting that there are dozens of martyrs from the Gaza detainees who are subject to enforced disappearance. It is noteworthy that the martyr Abu Zneid is the fifth administrative detainee to rise in the occupation prisons since the beginning of the war of extermination.
The Commission and the Club added that the case of the martyrdom of the detainee Abu Zneid – a former prisoner who was arrested five times, most of them under administrative detention, during which he went on hunger strikes in protest of his administrative detention – constitutes a new crime in the record of the Israeli brutal system, which has reached its peak since the beginning of the ongoing war of extermination.
They stressed that what is happening to prisoners and detainees is a humanitarian catastrophe, and is nothing but another aspect of the war of extermination, and the goal is to carry out more executions, assassinations and liquidations against prisoners and detainees.
The Commission and the Club stressed that the rate of increasing numbers of martyrs among prisoners and detainees will take a more dangerous turn as more time passes and thousands of prisoners and detainees continue to be held in the occupation prisons, and are exposed to systematic crimes, most notably torture, starvation, assaults in all their forms, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to their contracting serious and contagious diseases, in addition to the policies of theft and deprivation – unprecedented in their level.
The Prisoners’ Authority, the Prisoners’ Club, and all relevant institutions held the occupation fully responsible for their martyrdom, and renewed their demand for the international human rights system to move forward in taking effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would place it in a state of clear international isolation, and restore to the human rights system its fundamental role for which it was created, and put an end to the terrifying state of helplessness that has affected it in light of the war of extermination, and end the state of exceptional immunity that the old colonial states have granted to the occupying state of Israel, considering it above accountability, accountability, and punishment.
The statement pointed out that the total number of prisoners is more than 10,400, and this data does not include all detainees from Gaza, while the number of female prisoners until 9/1/2025 reached 85, including four female prisoners from Gaza, whose identities are known, children – no less than 320, administrative detainees – 3376 including about 95 children and 22 female prisoners.
