🔴*Autopsy Report Confirms Martyrdom of Palestinian Detainee Through Torture*

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners’ Society

January 23, 2025

Ramallah, Palestine – The Palestinian detainee Mohammad Hussein al-‘Aref (45) was deliberately killed through torture by Israeli occupation forces during his interrogation at the Jalama detention center, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have revealed. 

The details became clear after an autopsy was conducted and an initial medical report was provided to his family. ‘Aref, who was arrested on November 28, 2024, lost his life less than a week later, on December 4, 2024. The medical report notes that there were “multiple signs of physical assault and excessive use of restraints […] likely causing traumatic intracranial bleeding.” The report also outlines the presence of blood clots in various parts of his body, signs of a heart attack, and a pulmonary obstruction. The blood clots were found in the left side of his head, both arms and legs, chest, and abdomen.

‘Aref, who hails from the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, was transferred from the Jalama interrogation center directly to the Israeli occupation’s Rambam Hospital where he was declared dead shortly after arriving. 

The martyred detainee ‘Aref is one of 56 Palestinian prisoners and detainees who were killed and died in Israeli prisons after the outbreak of the Gaza genocide. This number only reflects those whose identities have been confirmed. There are many other prisoners from Gaza who have been killed in Israel’s prisons and military detention camps, which it refuses to provide information on. 

The assassination of detainee Mohammad al-‘Aref is part of a broader pattern of systematic crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails and detention camps for decades. Particularly since the genocide, dozens of prisoners and detainees have been killed through torture, alongside deprivation of medical care, intentional starvation, and severe beatings. This is the highest number of killings in prison on record. 

Torture methods have now exceeded previously recognized forms and have evolved into new techniques, beginning from the very first moment of arrest. These include violent arrest, intimidation, severe beatings, restraints that intentionally cause excruciating pain and injury, "shabah" (forcing them into strenuous positions), detention in degrading and humiliating conditions, verbal abuse against detainees and their families, long periods of interrogation, sleep deprivation, starvation, and sexual assault, including rape.

“Burned with boiling water, urinated on,” New testimonies of Palestinian detainees from Gaza.

January 2025

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs

Ramallah, Palestine - The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees Affairs released a new report detailing severe torture and abuse by occupation soldiers against Palestinians detained from Gaza, including burning them with boiling water and urinating on them.

This report is based on the testimonies of 23 detainees, gathered during visits to the prisoners by the lawyers of the Commission of Detainees Affairs. The visits took place between January 6-8, 2025, at the Naqab (Negev) prison and the Naftali military detention camp.

The testimonies reveal shocking details about the systematic torture that Palestinian detainees are being subject to across all prisons. While the Sdei Teiman military detention camp received the largest share of media attention due to the gang-rape that took place there, it is imperative to note that similar practices are taking place across many other prisons.

Occupation authorities also recently released a video from Rakefet prison, which is located underground in the Ramla prison. It is one of several prisons restored by the occupation after the genocide to hold Palestinians from Gaza.

*The detainees’ identities have been kept anonymous to protect against retaliation by prison authorities.

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Details on detention conditions for both detainees Shaden Qaws & Saly Sadaqa

Briefing paper: Key Palestinian prisoner exchange deals with the Israeli occupation

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
January 2025

In this briefing paper, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) present information about the key prisoner exchanges in the history of the Palestinian struggle with the occupation.

Paper attached below

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Liberty is within reach
Palestine awaits its heroes

Detainee Wajdi Khattab

🔴 Detainee Motaz Abu Zneid suffered from severe scabies disease before his martyrdom
14/1/2025

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)

Ramallah, Palestine – The 35-year-old detainee Motaz Abu Zneid who was martyred on Monday, January 13, 2025, was suffering from an advanced stage of scabies, during which occupation authorities deprived him of life-saving medical care, leading to his killing, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society revealed today.

The new details emerged after the PPS spoke to one of the recently released detainees who were held with Abu Zneid at the Ganot prison. He told the PPS that Abu Zneid began suffering from scabies skin disease several months ago. The occupation’s prison authorities deliberately delayed providing him with treatment, causing Abu Zneid’s condition to severely worsen. The boils and swelling on his body became very extreme with the passing of time, and he lost a great deal of weight, until he lost the ability to eat, stand and even use the restroom.

“The top layer of Abu Zneid’s skin began to fall off. We demanded the prison administration transfer him to hospital, but they did not heed our demands. On January 4, he lost consciousness, and two days later he was transferred to the hospital,” the former detainee PPS spoke to said.

Abu Zneid is a husband and father to one child from the city of Dura in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. He passed away while in the occupation’s Soroka hospital in the 1948-occupied territories. His family said that he did not have any pre-existing medical conditions before his arrest in June 2023.

The PPS, the Commission of Detainees Affairs, and all other relevant institutions hold the occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of Abu Zneid and the dozens of other Palestinians who have been killed in custody.

Scabies skin disease has not stopped spreading in the occupation’s prisons to this day. The testimonies of current and released prisoners reflect how the occupation used this disease as a tool for torturing and killing them. Prison authorities deliberately refuse to provide hygienic products and enough ventilation to the prisoners. They also refuse to provide prisoners with an adequate amount of food, water, and clothing, leading to an overall state of weakness in the immune system of the detainees.

The case of the martyr Mohammad Munir Musa from Bethlehem, reflects a similar pattern of abuse by the occupation. Musa, who suffered from diabetes, was martyred in October 2024, after he contracted scabies, leading to his martyrdom. There is more information about detainees from Gaza who were recently martyred as a result of scabies.

The number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the start of the genocide in Gaza has risen to 55 people. Dozens of other unidentified detainees arrested from Gaza have been martyred and subject to enforced disappearance. This number is the highest on record. Since the occupation of 1967, there have been least 292 identified martyred Palestinian detainees.

The Commission and the PPS urge immediate intervention to save the lives of thousands of Palestinian detainees held by the occupation, and who are being subject to an unprecedented rate of murder, torture and abuse. The international human rights system must take real steps to hold the occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions with the intent of isolating it. The state of exceptional immunity granted to the occupying state of Israel by the world’s colonial powers has allowed it to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity for decades with zero accountability.