Ramallah 4-12-2024 WAFA – The Commission of Prisoners’ and Former Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported the martyrdom of the detainee, Mohammad Walid Ali Hussein, 45, in Israeli occupation prisons.
The Commission and the PPS said in a joint statement that the Civil Affairs Authority informed them of the death of the detainee, Hussein, from the Nur Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Hussein is a former prisoner who spent about 20 years in occupation prisons, and was released three years ago. He was re-arrested a week ago and transferred to the Jalamah interrogation center, north of Jenin.
According to the information received, he was transferred on Wednesday morning to Rambam Hospital and was martyred there, without knowing any details about the circumstances of his martyrdom, but his martyrdom after a week of his arrest and transfer to interrogation is a clear indication that he was subjected to torture, which is one of the most prominent systematic policies practiced against detainees in the first stage of arrest.
The statement added that the martyr, Hussein is the 48th prisoner who has died in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the war of extermination in the occupation’s prisons and camps, and they are the only ones whose data has been obtained and announced by the relevant institutions, noting that there are dozens of detainees from Gaza who have been martyred in prisons and camps, and the occupation continues to conceal their data, so that the martyr, Hussein is added to the record of the occupation’s crimes that have extended for decades.
He stressed that all the data that the relevant institutions are following up on, about the harsh, terrifying and catastrophic conditions that prisoners are exposed to in the occupation’s prisons, as well as what the released prisoners reveal of shocking testimonies, is a clear indication that more prisoners are facing the risk of martyrdom, especially the sick, wounded, and elderly.
The Commission and the PPS continued that the relevant institutions are no longer able to limit the number of patients, with their numbers increasing as a result of the crimes and systematic policies imposed by the prison system on the prisoners, which have taken an unprecedented approach in terms of level and intensity, compared to any previous periods in the history of the prisoner movement.
The most prominent of these policies are the crimes of torture, abuse, starvation, medical crimes, robbery and deprivation at all levels, in addition to sexual assaults, noting that the general titles of the crimes are no longer able to describe the level of brutality to which the prisoners are exposed, which today constitutes another aspect of the war of extermination.
The Commission and the PPS pointed out that the time factor constitutes the most important decisive day for the fate of thousands of prisoners in the occupation’s prisons and camps, as thousands of sick and wounded prisoners and detainees, who endured the procedures and crimes of the prison system at the beginning of the war, no longer have the ability to do so today, and their health conditions are clearly deteriorating, and many healthy prisoners have turned into patients due to the continued spread of epidemics and diseases and the crime of starvation, and this is what we see daily whether through visits or through the courts.
The institutions held the occupation fully responsible for his martyrdom, so that these crimes are added to the record of historical crimes of the occupation for decades, which reached their peak with the continuation of the war of extermination against our people in Gaza, which constitutes the bloodiest stage in the history of our long conflict with the occupation.
The institutions indicated that with the martyrdom of the detainee, Mohammad Ali Hussein, the number of martyr prisoners whose identities are known since 1967 has risen to (285), in addition to dozens of martyr prisoners whose identities and circumstances of their martyrdom are still hidden by the occupation, and other detainees who were executed.
Of the total number of martyrs of the prisoner movement, the number of martyr prisoners since the beginning of the war of extermination has risen to (48), whose identities have been announced, including (29) detainees from Gaza.
The Commission and the Club renewed their demand for the international human rights system to move forward in taking effective decisions to hold the leaders of the occupation 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 the human rights system to its basic 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 as it is above accountability, accountability and punishment.
It is noteworthy that the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons who were recognized by the prison administration until the beginning of December, is more than 10,300, while the crime of enforced disappearance continues to be imposed on hundreds of Gaza detainees in the camps affiliated with the occupation army.
Among the prisoners are (89) female prisoners, no less than (280) children, and (3428) administrative detainees, including (27) women, and at least (100) children.
