A sick Palestinian detainee died on Sunday in an Israeli hospital, after more than eight months of detention in Israeli occupation prisons.
The General Authority of Civil Affairs, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released a statement announcing the death of the detainee, Mahmoud Talal Tawfiq Abdullah, 49, in the “Assaf Harofeh” Hospital in Israel.
Media sources reported that occupation forces abducted Abdullah from his home on February 1, 2025 in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.
The sources added that Abdullah’s health condition deteriorated after his detention, before he was diagnosed with advanced cancer.
Israeli prison authorities refused to release Abdullah despite his ill health, before transferring him to the Assaf Harofeh hospital where he died on Sunday, one day after being admitted.
Since October 7, 2023, the number of identified Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons has risen to 79, while 316 have died since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the PPS asserted that the death of the detainee, Abdullah, adds to a series of complex crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime as a matter of policy, in the context of its ongoing war of extermination against the people of Palestine.
The Commission and the PPS mentioned that the testimonies of hundreds of former detainees confirm the systematic torture carried out by Israeli authorities in occupation prisons.
They called on the international community to hold the occupation accountable for war crimes perpetrated against Palestinian detainees by imposing sanctions and putting an end to its remarkable impunity.
