Elderly Palestinian Political Prisoner Killed in Israeli Occupation Prisons

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs

October 20, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the martyrdom of 69-year-old Palestinian political prisoner Kamel Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Ajrami who was abducted from the Gaza Strip on October 25, 2024 – less than a year ago.

Al-Ajrami was married and was a father to six children. He passed away at the occupation’s Soroka Hospital on October 10, 2025, after being held in Naqab Prison.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) confirmed that Al-Ajrami is the latest martyr of the prisoners’ movement killed in Israeli occupation prisons due to systematic practices that have escalated to unprecedented levels since the start of the genocide. His killing, just one day after that of detainee Mahmoud Abdullah from Jenin camp, highlights a new peak in brutality—the bloodiest phase in the movement’s history.

The Commission and the PPS stressed that the crimes committed against detainees are a direct extension of the genocide, as confirmed by the testimonies of hundreds of released prisoners, documenting torture, starvation, medical neglect, and sexual assault. The testimonies of detainees from Gaza remain the most horrifying, reflecting an unprecedented level of brutality by the Israeli prison system.

The two institutions added that the announcement of Al-Ajrami’s martyrdom comes at a time when the minister Itamar Ben-Gvir continues to call for the enactment of a law to execute prisoners, tying the fate of his fascist government to its approval.

With Al-Ajrami’s killing, the number of martyred Palestinian political prisoners since the start of the genocide has risen to 80 people, with dozens of others whose bodies have forcibly disappeared. This period is witnessing the highest levels of bloodshed since 1967. The total number of identified martyred prisoners since 1967 stands at 317 people, while the number of prisoner bodies held by the occupation has reached 88, including 77 bodies held since the war.

The institutions emphasized that the accelerating pace of killing among prisoners in this unprecedented manner proves that the Israeli prison system continues to implement a policy of slow killing. Not a month passes without the death of a new prisoner. With the continuation of daily crimes inside the prisons, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, especially as thousands of detainees are held in conditions that lack even the minimum standards of life, subjected to systematic violations including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assaults, medical neglect, and the spread of infectious diseases—chief among them scabies—alongside unprecedented policies of deprivation and dispossession.

The institutions also pointed to field executions carried out against dozens of detainees, with the recently returned bodies after the ceasefire providing undeniable evidence of the level of criminality inflicted on them on the ground.

The Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society hold the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Al-Ajrami, and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes committed against detainees and the Palestinian people. They called for the imposition of clear international sanctions that would isolate the occupation, restore the role of the international rights system to its original purpose, and put an end to the horrifying paralysis it has shown during the genocide. They also demanded an end to the exceptional immunity still granted to the occupation by some international powers, as if it were an entity above the law and accountability.