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Palestinian Medic Abducted From Gaza During Kamal Adwan Hospital Siege, Killed in Israeli Occupation Prison
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society
February 12, 2026
Ramallah, occupied Palestine – 59-year-old Palestinian paramedic Hatem Ismail Rayyan, who was abducted by Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2024, during the siege on the Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been martyred in the Naqab (Negev) prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said on Thursday evening through information obtained from the PA’s General Authority for Civil Affairs.
Rayyan was arrested from the hospital along with his son Muath, who was injured by occupation forces, and remains behind bars. Rayyan had suffered a stroke before his arrest, according to his family. Nevertheless, he insisted on continuing to perform his humanitarian duty as a paramedic until Israeli occupation forces arrested him during the siege imposed on Kamal Adwan Hospital.
That period witnessed a wide-scale arrest campaign targeting many medical personnel, including Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, who was arrested on the same day as Rayyan. The targeting of medical staff, along with the siege and destruction of hospitals, has been among the most prominent aspects of the occupation’s crime of genocide in Gaza. Since October 2023, there have been three killings of doctors.
The rise in killings and deaths of Palestinian political prisoners at the hands of the occupation’s prison system and personnel over the past three years comes amid accelerated efforts by to legislate a horrific law to execute of Palestinian prisoners, effectively transforming an extrajudicial execution policy into an officially codified and legalized one.
Rayyan is one of more than 100 Palestinian political prisoners killed in Israeli prisons and army camps since the beginning of the genocide, with the identities of 88 of them announced so far. These killings are the result of widespread torture, systematic starvation policies, medical neglect and abuse, sexual assaults, and a series of deprivation, abuse, humiliation, and detention under inhumane conditions—turning prisons into another arena of genocide and marking the most violent phase in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.
With the martyrdom of detainee Rayyan, the number of identified Palestinian prisoners who have been killed since the start of the genocide has risen to 88 people, including 52 detainees from Gaza. This brings the total number of identified Palestinian prisoner deaths since 1967 to 325, according to records of the relevant institutions.
Many detainees from Gaza who have died remain victims of enforced disappearance, in addition to dozens who were summarily executed in the field. Images of prisoners’ bodies and remains handed over after the ceasefire have provided clear evidence of systematic extrajudicial executions carried out by Israeli forces against prisoners.
The Commission and the PPS added that, according to available data as of the beginning of February 2026, approximately half of the total number of political prisoners in Israeli prisons are currently held without charge or trial, either under arbitrary administrative detention orders or under the classification of so-called “unlawful combatants.” The total number of Palestinians in Israeli occupation prisons exceeds 9,300, including 3,358 “administrative detainees” and 1,249 classified as “unlawful combatants.”
In conclusion, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society hold hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Hatem Rayyan. They renewed their call on the international human rights system to take effective and urgent measures to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people, and to end the state of impunity provided by the United States and international powers to the Israeli occupation system over decades—an impunity that has reached its peak during the genocide, despite overwhelming evidence of its commission against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in addition to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against prisoners and detainees.
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Elderly Palestinian Political Prisoner Martyred in Israeli Occupation’s Prisons
Officials Disclose His Killing Three Months Late
Palestinian Prisoner's Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs
January 11, 2026
Ramallah, occupied Palestine – Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed to Palestinian prisoner groups the martyrdom of the 67-year-old Palestinian political detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdulhadi Adwan who was abducted from the Gaza Strip in November 2024.
According to the response received by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Adwan lost his life on September 9, 2025. The manner in which he was martyred remains unknown due to the information blackout that occupation authorities continue to impose on Palestinian detainees since the genocide in Gaza.
Adwan was a husband, and a father to nine children, two of whom were martyred prior to the genocide. According to his family, occupation forces arrested him despite his suffering from health problems, including heart disease, and despite his need for continuous medical care.
The PPS and the Commission noted that Adwan is one of over a hundred prisoners who have been killed in Israeli occupation prisons through torture including rape, starvation, medical crimes, since the beginning of the genocide, as well as other crimes involving deprivation, looting, humiliation, and detention in conditions that undermine human dignity.
This brings the total number of identified martyred Palestinian prisoners since the occupation of 1967 to 324 people.
Many of Gaza’s killed detainees remain forcibly disappeared, along with dozens who were executed in the field. Images of prisoners’ corpses delivered after the ceasefire provided conclusive evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupation army against detainees.
The PPS and the Commission hold occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Hamza Adwan and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They urged an end to the impunity granted by the United States and other international powers to the Israeli occupation system over many decades, which reached its peak with the genocide, despite irrefutable evidence of the occupation’s commission of genocide against the people of Gaza, in addition to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against prisoners.
In this context, the PPS and the Commission emphasized that the crimes that the Israeli prison system continues to commit against prisoners form an inseparable part of the genocide in Gaza. Through these crimes, the occupation system seeks to carry out slow executions, making this period the deadliest in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. This comes as the occupation seeks to legislate a law to execute Palestinian prisoners, turning extrajudicial executions into a codified and “legalized” policy.
It should be noted that the vast majority of Palestinian political prisoners are people who are held without trial or charge, either under arbitrary administrative detention or classified by the occupation authorities as “illegal combatants.” According to available data, as of January 2026, the number of prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons exceeds 9,300, including 3,385 people under administrative detention and 1,237 people classified as “illegal combatants,” meaning that the overwhelming majority of detainees are held without charges or trials.
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Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society Announce Names of Three Palestinians Abducted from Gaza and Martyred in the Occupation's Custody
December 4, 2025
Ramallah, occupied Palestine - The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced the names of three martyrs from among the Palestinians abducted from occupied Gaza and were killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in recent months. They are: Taysir Saeed al-Abd Sabbaba (60), Khamees Shukri Mer'i Ashour (44), and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyeh (35).
The family of prisoner Sabbaba was officially informed by the HaMoked rights group through a response from the occupying military, while the Commission and the PPS received two responses from the army confirming the martyrdom of detainees Khamees Ashour and Khalil Haniyeh.
According to these responses, prisoner Sabbaba was killed on December 31, 2024, two months after his arrest; prisoner Khamees Ashour was killed on February 8, 2024 - one day after his arrest - and prisoner Khalil Haniyeh on December 25, 2024, nearly a year after his arrest.
The Commission and the PPS noted that Sabbaba was married and a father-of-nine; Ashour was a father-of-six; and Haniyeh a father-of-four.
The two institutions added that these three martyrs are among dozens of Palestinian political prisoners who were killed since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza and in the occupation’s prisons as a result of widespread torture, starvation, medical abuse, sexual assaults, and a host of other forms of deprivation, dispossession, abuse, humiliation, and detention in degrading conditions. Many of the detainees martyred after their abduction from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared, in addition to dozens who were executed in the field. The bodies of detainees returned after the ceasefire provided clear evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupying army.
The number of martyred Palestinian prisons since the start of the genocide, according to documentation by human-rights organizations and Palestinian specialized institutions, has exceeded 100 people, and this number is not final. Of these, 84 people have been identified by the relevant Palestinian institutions, including 50 detainees from Gaza. This raises the total number of Palestinian prisoner martyrs since 1967 to 321 people.
The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for the systematic killing of Palestinian detainees, and renewed their call on the international human-rights system to take effective measures to hold occupation leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They urged an end to the exceptional impunity granted to the Israeli occupation by the United States and other international powers for decades—impunity that reached its peak with the start of the genocide—despite clear evidence of the crime of genocide committed against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against political prisoners.
The two institutions stressed that the crimes committed by the prison system against detainees are part and parcel of the ongoing genocide, through which the occupation seeks to carry out slow-motion executions. This stage has become the most violent in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, at a time when the occupation is attempting to legislate a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, turning extrajudicial executions into a legalized policy.
The PPS and the Commission noted that the vast majority of prisoners currently held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons are detained without trial—either under arbitrary “administrative detention” or classified by the occupation as “unlawful combatants.” According to available data, as of November 2025, the number of administrative detainees reached 3,368, while those classified as “unlawful combatants” numbered 1,205—a figure that does not include all Gaza detainees.
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Elderly Palestinian Political Detainee from Jenin Killed in Occupation’s Prisons
November 2, 2025
Ramallah, occupied Palestine – Israeli occupation officials have revealed the martyrdom of a 63-year-old Palestinian political detainee, Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadra, who hails from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. Ghawadra was arrested on August 6, 2024 - just over a year ago - and was held in “Janot Prison” (formerly Nafha and Ramon) until his martyrdom. The circumstances of his killing remain unclear due to the complete information blackout that occupation authorities continue to impose on Palestinian detainees.
The martyr Mohammad Ghawadra was the father of currently-held administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra, and of released prisoner Shadi Ghawadra, who was deported to Egypt after being freed as part of the prisoner exchange deal concluded earlier this year.
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society affirmed that the martyrdom of prisoner Mohammad Ghawadra comes amid ongoing systematic incitement led by the occupation authorities, represented by the fascist minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is pushing for legislation to execute prisoners and boasts of his crimes against them—at a time when Palestinian prisoners are subjected to one of the most severe manifestations of comprehensive and ongoing genocide within Israeli occupation prisons. The killing of the martyr Ghawadra adds to a series of compound crimes carried out by the occupation system against prisoners, aimed at killing them slowly and destroying them psychologically and physically.
The two institutions noted that following the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli Prison Service escalated its crimes and violations against detainees. Testimonies and statements by released prisoners provided irrefutable evidence of compound torture crimesand field executions inside prisons—evidence that was clearly reflected in the bodies of the martyrs returned as part of the agreement.
With the martyrdom of detainee Mohammad Ghawadra, the number of martyrs of the prisoners’ movement since the start of the genocide has risen to 81 people whose identities have been confirmed, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees. This phase in the history of the prisoners’ movement is the bloodiest since 1967, with the total number of identified martyred detainees reaching 318 people since the occupation of 1967, according to documented data from prisoner institutions. The number of prisoners whose bodies the occupation continues to withhold—both before and after the war—has risen to 89, including 78 since the war began.
The two institutions stressed that the accelerating pace of prisoner martyrdom at this unprecedented rate confirms that the Israeli occupation’s prison system continues implementing a policy of slow killing—as hardly a month passes without a new martyr among the prisoners. With the ongoing daily crimes inside prisons, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, as thousands of detainees remain held in conditions devoid of the most basic necessities of life, and are subjected to systematic violations including torture, starvation, physical and sexual assault, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases, foremost among them scabies, which has returned to spread among prisoners—alongside unprecedented deprivation policies in their severity and scope.
The institutions also added that the field executions that have targeted dozens of detainees confirm the criminal nature of the occupation system. The images of the prisoners’ bodies handed over after the ceasefire provided conclusive proof of the extent of the crimes committed against them in the field.
The Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society hold occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Mohammad Ghawadra, and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the occupation leaders accountable for war crimes committed against the prisoners and the Palestinian people.
The two institutions also called for the imposition of clear international sanctions that isolate the occupation, restore the original role of the international human rights system for which it was established, and end the horrifying state of paralysis that has afflicted it during the genocide. They further demanded an end to the impunity still enjoyed by “Israel,” due to the support of international powers that continue to treat it as an entity above law and accountability.
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society