20-year-old Palestinian Dies Days After He Was Shot & Arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces

Palestinian Prisoner's Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs

August 25, 2025

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israeli occupation authorities have announced the martyrdom of the wounded Palestinian political prisoner, 20-year-old Musab Abdelmoneim al-Ayadeh, while he was hospitalized at the Shaare Zedek Israeli hospital in occupied Jerusalem.

Al-Ayadeh was shot by occupation forces in his hometown of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank just four days ago - on August 21. He was then taken into custody despite his severe injuries, and brought before a military court on Sunday, August 24, at "Ofer" prison, which extended his detention.

The information of his killing was passed on to the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs, which in turn informed the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) who informed his family.

lsraeli occupation forces intended to execute al-Ayadeh when they shot him days ago, as had occurred with many other Palestinians who were killed. It later became evident that he was taken into custody and was being held at Shaare Zedek Hospital.

The killing of Al-Ayadeh adds yet another entry to the ever-growing record of Israeli brutality—field executions chief among them—which have reached unprecedented levels amid a genocide now almost in its second year.

The sharp and accelerating rise in the direct and indirect killing of detainees held in the Israeli occupation’s custody underscores its ongoing savagery. The prison system, in particular, has been fully weaponized as a tool of repression and extermination, systematically deployed to extinguish Palestinian lives behind bars. Not a single month passes without another name added to the long and growing list of martyred prisoners, a grim reflection of a regime that has normalized death as a function of its carceral machinery.

As prison crimes persist, the number of martyred prisoners is set to rise, with thousands held in conditions unfit for human life. Detainees face daily torture, starvation, assault, medical neglect, sexual violence, and deliberate exposure to infectious diseases like scabies. These are part of a broader system of deprivation designed to destroy from within.

With the martyrdom of the injured detainee al-Ayadeh, the number of identified martyred political prisoners since the beginning of the genocide rises to 77 people. Many others remain subject to enforced disappearances. This marks the bloodiest chapter in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, with 314 documented prisoner martyrs since 1967. The occupation continues to withhold 85 bodies, 74 of them killed since the start of the genocide.

We urge the human rights system to hold occupation leaders accountable, impose clear sanctions, and end the ongoing inaction that has enabled these crimes. If Israel continues to operate with impunity, as if above law and justice, these crimes will only continue and escalate, and the blood of Palestinians will only continue to be spilled.