Martyrdom of 22-year-old Palestinian Political Prisoner Held Without Trial or Charge

on 07 October 2025. Posted in Martyrs

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners Society

October 7, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have revealed to the General Authority for Civil Affairs the martyrdom of 22-year-old Palestinian detainee Ahmad Hatem Mohammad Khdeirat. From the town of al-Thahiriyeh in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, Khdeirat was arrested on May 23, 2024. He was held without trial or charge despite his chronic diabetes and was placed in inhumane conditions in the notorious Naqab Prison for most of his detention.

In recent months, Khdeirat’s health severely deteriorated after contracting scabies skin disease, which caused intense itching and repeated seizures. He also suffered from severe hunger episodes, dangerously low blood sugar due to his condition, and extreme difficulty moving or meeting his daily needs. His weight dropped to about 40 kilograms. According to a lawyer who visited him in August, Khdeirat had been unable to get out of bed for two months.

The Commission of Detainees Affairs’ and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society emphasized that Khdeirat’s martyrdom adds to the list of compound crimes committed by the occupation system, as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and its policy of killing prisoners and detainees.
With Khdeirat’s killing, the number of martyrs from the prisoners’ movement since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 78 people, and this number includes only those whose identities have been confirmed, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees. This phase marks the bloodiest period in the history of the prisoners’ movement since 1967, with the number of confirmed martyred prisoners reaching 315 people, according to documented data from prisoners’ institutions.

The two institutions confirmed that the continued and unprecedented rise in the number of prisoner killings proves once again that the occupation’s prison system is persistently implementing a policy of slow killing. Not a month goes by without a new martyr being recorded among the prisoners. With the continuation of daily crimes inside prisons, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, as thousands remain detained in conditions lacking the most basic requirements of life, constantly subjected to systematic crimes including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assault, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases, primarily scabies, in addition to unprecedented policies of deprivation and abuse.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for Khdeirat’s martyrdom and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take serious decisions and actions to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They also called for the imposition of clear international sanctions to isolate the occupation, restore the role of the human rights system for which it was established, end the horrifying paralysis that has gripped it during the genocide, and put an end to the exceptional impunity still granted to the occupation by international powers — as if it were a state above the law, beyond accountability and justice.