On Sunday evening, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office released a statement announcing that another Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody, the second in less than one week.
The statement added that the wounded detainee, Nasser Khalil Mohammad Al-Radaydeh, 49, died on Sunday, after being transferred to the Hadassah Hospital from Ofer Prison.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the slain detainee, from the town of Al-‘Ubeidiya, east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank leaves behind his wife and seven children.
The groups added that occupation forces shot Al-Radaydeh with live ammunition on September 18, 2023 before abducting him, remaining in Israeli custody since that time.
Since the beginning of Israel’s military onslaught against the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, at least 65 Palestinian detainees have died in occupation prisons.
Additionally, the number of Palestinian detainees who have died in occupation prisons since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, has risen to 302.
The Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the PPS stated that they hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the death of the detainee, Al-Radaydeh, and demanded that the International Human Rights community take action, including imposing sanctions against Israeli government to hold it accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people.
In related news, the Palestinian detainee, Musab Hassan Omar Adili, 20, died in Israeli custody, on April 16 in the Soroka Hospital in Israel, just days before he was set for release.
